New Boy

By Tracy Chevalier

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ISBN: 9781781090312
Themes: Friendship inequality Drama Racism Society

Preface

New Boy is one of the retellings of Shakespeare that was commissioned by the Hogarth Press as part of a series of retellings commissioned as part of events coinciding with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

New Boy is set in a schoolyard in 1970’s Washington DC and revolves around the arrival of Osei Kokote, the only black boy in a school full of white children. It is Osei’s fourth school in six years and he knows he needs to work quickly to gain an ally so he is pleased when that ally turns out to be Dee, the most popular girl in school.

Not everyone is happy about the budding relationship though and before long Ian is setting plans into motion that can only end in violence.