Roche is unable to pronounce the visiting students' names, and when the students are appalled at how bad their school is compared to RAD. Roche, asks that Drew help serve as a student ambassador for visiting students from another school, this school having mainly African American students. At the end of the day, one of the teachers, Mr. Andy is then teased about it the entire day. Things come to a head when Andy appears at school with his skin dyed green, as a result of a prank. On the day of Halloween, Andy is dismayed to discover that hardly any of his classmates have dressed as the Avengers. When the others don't play along, Andy gets angry and walks off. A few weeks later, Andy comes to Jordan's group of friends, suggesting that the group dress up as the Avengers for Halloween. After meeting other friends at school, Jordan and his friends go home. Drew attempts to make up with Andy, but Andy just walks off in a huff. However, at school, Drew becomes annoyed when several other students attempt to touch his new hairstyle, and to add the group's problems, they meet their old enemy from last year, Andy Peterson. At school, Jordan meets up with his friends Drew and Liam. He has a dream to go to art school and become an artist, but his mother still wants him to go to RAD and enrolled him there last year. Plot Summary įollowing the events a few months after the events of New Kid, Jordan Banks, a young African American boy, is feeling discomfort about going to eighth grade at RAD also known as Riverdale Academy Day School, a prestigious school. The series includes sketches done in pencil, termed by the author to be 'intermissions'.

The series talks about how Jordan feels not welcomed no matter how hard the school tries. The story is about an eighth grade African American student at Riverdale Academy Day School, Drew Ellis.

Class Act is a 2020 graphic novel by Jerry Craft, published by Quill Tree Books/HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins.

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