New Kid

Craft's companion novel told from Drew's perspective — the same world, the code-switching strategy Jordan observed, now examined from the inside

Same graphic novel form, same double-identity theme — Yang uses magical realism where Craft uses realism, but both use the visual medium to show the split self

Another middle-grade story about navigating American institutions from outside the default — class, race, and belonging through a first-generation lens

Black middle-school identity in verse rather than panels — shared themes of family, neighborhood as self, and the pressure to perform across contexts

Verse memoir exploring Black identity, belonging, and the question of what gets taken with you when you move between worlds — thematically parallel, formally different

Older and more directly political, but shares New Kid's code-switching theme — Starr Carter navigates the same split between home world and private school, with higher explicit stakes