New Kid

New Kid is an Canadian-Russian television series (specifically for Teletoon).

Premise
12-year-old Jordan Banks is a black boy who lives in Washington Heights. Jordan loves art and wishes to go to art school. Instead, his mother makes him go to Riverdale Academy Day (RAD) School, which she calls "one of the best schools in the state". However, RAD is not a very diverse school, having only a few students of color.

During his first day at Riverdale, Jordan is overwhelmed. He is helped by Liam Landers (a fellow student assigned to be Jordan's guide, and whose family has attended RAD for 3 generations). The two become friends. Jordan meets a variety of other students at the school, including Drew Ellis (who is one of the few African American students at his school); James Talbi (an friendly/positive/mature musician); Andy Peterson (an rude obnoxious jock); and Alexandra Smith (who always wears a sock puppet on her hand).

Jordan has some difficulties adjusting to RAD. These include sitting at the wrong table at lunch and not knowing how to act when a friend from the neighborhood sees him with Liam. Further challenges occur when his advisor discusses students on financial aid and calls Drew by the name of DeAndre. Jordan discovers that this kind of misnaming happens to other black students and faculty at the school, even a black teacher who has been at the school for fourteen years.

Things start to slowly improve for Jordan. Forced to pick a team sport to play, Jordan chooses soccer and struggles with the rules and the cold, but scores an accidental goal in his first game. He also is able to have honest conversations with Drew about what it's like to be one of the few African Americans at RAD and become friends with him. His friendship with Liam also deepens over video games. After a discussion with his grandfather, Jordan successfully mixes both his school friends through video games. However, after Jordan corrects his neighborhood friends' grammar they give him the nickname "Private School".

There continue to be ups and downs for Jordan at school academically and socially. At first, Jordan dislikes his art teacher because she is teaching modern art, though later he comes to understand that modern art isn't that bad and that his teacher can paint normal art too. While waiting to be picked up one day, Jordan learns that Alexandra wears a sock puppet because she doesn't want anyone to see the burns on her hand, although the burns aren't that bad; through a bit of trickery, Jordan gets the information about Alexandra's burn out which causes her to become more accepted by her peers. After ongoing tension between Drew and Andy, starting from when Drew beat Andy for a position on the football team, Andy dares Drew to join the baseball team, which he does, and ends up being benched all season because he doesn't really know how to play baseball. When Drew and Andy get into an argument in the cafeteria, Andy slips on an apple and falls, but Drew is initially accused of pushing him. However, Jordan and several other classmates stick up for Drew, stopping him from being suspended for two weeks.

As the school year draws to a close, Jordan's modern art illustration is picked for the cover of the yearbook. Drew, Liam, and Jordan have become good friends and on the last day of school Jordan even dresses like Liam as a joke. Drew remains unsure if he'll return to RAD, almost having been suspended for the argument with Andy despite making the honor roll each semester. The book ends with Jordan with his neighborhood friends as they start their summer vacation.

Main

 * Jordan Banks - (TBA)
 * Liam Landers - (TBA)
 * Andy Peterson - (TBA)
 * Drew Ellis - (TBA)
 * James Talbi - (TBA)
 * Alexandra Smith - (TBA)

Supporting

 * Maury Johnson - (TBA)