A review by balletbookworm
New Boy by Tracy Chevalier

3.0

Ehhhhh...I love the Shakespeare Hogarth series idea, but I don't think this one executed well. We've had Othello updated using teens before but Chevalier chose to use 6th graders during one school day as her setting. Her depiction of racial tension in 1970s America works but the sexual politics fell very flat, particularly since the action takes place in a single school day. Maybe it would have worked better over time as the children aged and developed relationships but this was far too short a time span.