"A troubled kid finds his bearings in a new school after a baseball coach offers him a spot on the team"--

When almost-nine-year-old Carson Blum and his father move to Northern California, he is worried about adjusting to his new, large, public school and finding friends.

"Third-grader Gavin and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new boy in their class, Khufu. He doesn't look or act like other kids. When Gavin's bike goes missing, they think Khufu stole it, but did he?"--

When a wild new student, rumored to have fleas, is paired with the narrator for a science project, she proves there is a lot more to her--and her unusual family--than anyone could have guessed.

Inspired by the author's widely acclaimed New York Times article, The New Kids is immersion reporting at its most compelling. Brooke Hauser takes us deep inside a unique New York City high school over the course of a year as she follows diverse newcomers whose lives are at once ordinary and extraordinary, international headlines brought to life. No native English-speaking students attend the International High School, and more than twenty-eight languages...

The new boy in class is a disruptive pest until one child remembers how bad it feels to be new at school and makes friends with Sid.

Told from the perspective of a student, readers are presented with two versions of what happens when a "new kid" joins the protagonist's school.

Some walked across deserts and mountains to get here. Others flew in on planes. One arrived after escaping in a suitcase. And some won't say how they got here. These are "the new kids": new to America and all the routines and rituals of an American high school, from lonely first days to prom. They attend International High School at Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, which is like most high schools in some way--its halls are filled with students gossiping,...

Six-year-old Nurk, from the planet Glorf, visits a school on Earth and makes a new friend.

A young boy must cope with leaving his old school and friends behind when he and his family move to a new house, but he discovers moving and making new friends can be exciting.