The New Kid Code · Book 2
The New Kid Code: Still Here
Maya knows exactly how to be the new kid. What she has no idea how to do is stay.
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- Series
- The New Kid Code · Book 2
- Readers
- Ages 9–12
- Genre
- Middle grade fiction · Realistic fiction
- Formats
- Kindle · Paperback
- Published
- June 15, 2026
- Pages
- 169
- ISBN
- 979-8181639461
About this book
Maya has spent her whole life getting good at leaving. She has a system for it, and the system assumes an ending.
Then the move she braced for falls through, and she is still here — in the same school, with the same people, on a timeline that suddenly has no edge. It turns out the Code never wrote a rule for staying.
Book Two is about what happens after the hard part is supposed to be over: keeping the friends you made when you thought you were leaving, being fully present somewhere instead of half packed, and finding out that showing up all the way is scarier than any first day.
Book Two of The New Kid Code.
For readers 9–12
A quick check for the parent, teacher, or librarian deciding. Book Two is the one for a child whose life just stopped moving.
What it is about
- Staying somewhere after bracing to leave
- Keeping friends you made while half packed
- Plans that change without anyone asking you
- Being fully present instead of holding back
- What it costs to stop guarding yourself
Reading order
Each book stands alone, but Maya's Code grows across the series.
Maya knows exactly how to be the new kid. What she has no idea how to do is stay.
Also free to read with Kindle Unlimited.