GRAPHIC NOVELS READING LIST

GRADES 6–8

ala.org/alsc GRAPHIC NOVELS READING LIST GRADES 6–8

All My Friends the mall haunted by her best Class Act Are Ghosts friend, Blob Ghost (an actual (New Kid #2) ghost), is in trouble, and they by S. M. Vidaurri, illustrated by Jerry Craft are counting on Beetle to by Hannah Krieger QUILL TREE, 2020 save them. KABOOM!, 2020 ISBN: 9780062885517 ISBN: 9781684154982 Drew struggles with Adrift loner Effie discovers Best Friends his identity and place a ghostly school in the (Friends #2) at an elite prep school woods where she finds while navigating by Shannon Hale, new friends, but just as she microaggressions and illustrated by LeUyen Pham starts to settle in, Effie’s tensions between friends FIRST SECOND, 2019 friends need her to put her ISBN: 9781250317452 during their eighth-grade new skills to use and show (Part of a series.) Shannon is ready for sixth year. the spirits what she can do. grade, but keeping up with the cool crowd can be hard, Cub Almost American even when you think you’ve by Cynthia L. Copeland Girl: An Illustrated got an “in.” (Part of a series.) ALGONQUIN, 2020 Memoir ISBN: 9781616209933 by Robin Ha Be Wary of the Silent A memoir shares the BALZER + BRAY, 2020 author’s experience as a Woods (The Weirn cub reporter and how that ISBN: 9780062685100 Books #1) Moving to Alabama from investigative work colored by Korea, artistic teenager all aspects of seventh JY, 2020 grade (not to mention Robin struggles to fit in at ISBN: 9781975311216 school and navigate her shaping her future as a Ailis and her cousins Na’ya changing relationship with writer) during the 1972–73 and D’esh are weirns. After her mother. school year. they are pursued through the Silent Woods by a Night Astronauts: Women Thing that later abducts The Dark Matter of on the Final Frontier a classmate, the witch Mona Starr cousins investigate and by Jim Ottaviani, illustrated by Laura Lee Gulledge uncover secrets along the by Maris Wicks AMULET, 2020 way. (Part of a series.) ISBN: 9781419734236 FIRST SECOND, 2020 ISBN: 9781626728776 Filled with self-doubt and Astronaut Mary Cleave anxiety, Mona finds the Catherine’s War strength to ask for help to guides readers through by Julia Billet, illustrated by the history of women’s handle her “Matter,” her Claire Fauvel, translated word for her depression, contributions to space by lvanka Hahnenberger exploration with technical and she is reminded that HARPERALLEY, 2020 the Matter might be part of but accessible descriptions ISBN: 9780062915603 her, but it isn’t all of her. of the science and Rachel uses a camera to captivating anecdotes. document her experience as a Jewish girl in France The Deep & Dark Blue Beetle & the at the height of World by Niki Smith Hollowbones War II in a story inspired LITTLE, BROWN, 2020 by the author’s mother’s ISBN: 9780316485982 by Aliza Layne experience. When their cousin stages ATHENEUM, 2020 ISBN: 9781534441538 a coup, twins Hawke and Twelve-year-old goblin- Grayson seek refuge by witch Beetle has a problem: disguising themselves as girls in the all-female Communion of Blue, the GRAPHIC NOVELS READING LIST

order of women who weave Lightfall: The Girl & Meg, Jo, Beth, and the threads that bind the the Galdurian Amy: A Modern world. by Tim Probert Graphic Retelling HARPERALLEY, 2020 of Little Women Displacement ISBN: 9780062990471 (Classic Graphic by Kiku Hughes When Bea’s adoptive grandfather, the Pig Remix #1) FIRST SECOND, 2020 by Rey Terciero, illustrated ISBN: 9781250193544 Wizard, goes missing, Bea by Bre Indigo While visiting San Francisco, and her new friend Cad go on a quest to find him, LITTLE, BROWN, 2019 teenage Kiku is magically ISBN: 9780316522861 encountering endless transported back to 1942, A retelling of the Louisa dangers and an ancient where she is forced to May Alcott classic in which threat trying to plummet relocate to an internment the sisters and their the world into darkness. camp along with the parents are a blended, (Part of a series.) grandmother she never interracial family, with a met, now just a child. plot updated to reflect Maker Comics: contemporary issues Dragon Hoops Fix a Car! including remarriage, homophobia, and racism. by Gene Luen Yang by Chris Schweizer (Part of a series.) FIRST SECOND, 2020 FIRST SECOND, 2019 ISBN: 9781626720794 ISBN: 9781250150035 Comic-book-lover Yang Learn how cars work One Year at Ellsmere and the steps to simple shares everything about by car-care tasks such as his experience working FIRST SECOND, 2020 at a high school where jump-starts, oil changes, ISBN: 9781250219091 everyone is obsessed with wiper replacements, and Boarding school is not what the Dragons, the school’s the proper way to keep a Juniper thought it would varsity basketball team. car clean, a how-to book in be: she’s struggling to fit in, Funny and poignant, this a fun comic package. the most popular girl is out autobiographical graphic (Part of a series.) to get her, and, worst of all, novel will inspire artists and there might be a spooky athletes alike. Manuelito beast roaming the woods by Elisa Amado, illustrated outside of the school. Go with the Flow by Abraham Urias by Karen Schneeman and ANNICK PRESS, 2019 The Twin ISBN: 9781773212661 Lily Williams by Lisa Brown The powerful story of FIRST SECOND, 2020 FIRST SECOND, 2020 ISBN: 9781250305725 Manuelito, a boy from a ISBN: 9781626729254 Four sophomores tiny village in Guatemala, Sideshow star Jane dies in band together to raise who flees the dangers in an effort to separate from awareness about women’s his country for Mexico and her twin, leaving Isabel health issues in this then the United States, with a prosthetic arm and exploration of menstrual looking for asylum. leg along with her sister’s equality, female friendship, ghost in this exploration of and finding one’s true self. family, identity, loss, and personal growth. Primer: A Superhero Space Boy This Was Our Pact by Stephen McCranie by Ryan Andrews by Jennifer Muro and DARK HORSE, 2018 FIRST SECOND, 2019 Thomas Krajewski, ISBN: 9781506706481 ISBN: 9781250196958 illustrated by Gretel Lusky This interplanetary drama On the autumn equinox, DC COMICS, 2020 begins when Amy’s and his friends promise ISBN: 9781401296575 family is forced to move themselves they will ride Finally living with a loving back to Earth, where she out of town to investigate a foster family, Ashley experiences a strange new local legend without turning Rayburn happens upon world and its even stranger back, and the boys’ journey body paints that cause her inhabitants. (Part of a series.) turns fantastically strange to have superpowers. when they encounter a talking bear. Smashes Queen of the Sea the Klan by Dylan Meconis by Gene Luen Yang, When Stars Are WALKER, 2019 illustrated by Scattered ISBN: 9781536204988 DC COMICS, 2020 by Victoria Jamieson and Queen Eleanor of Albion ISBN: 9781779504210 Omar Mohamed, illustrated is banished to a remote Inspired by the Adventures by Victoria Jamieson island convent where she of Superman radio serial of DIAL, 2020 befriends Margaret, a the 1940s, two Metropolis ISBN: 9780525553915 mysterious orphan raised teens encounter racism, Two young Somali orphans, by the nuns, and, as the xenophobia, and the Ku brothers Omar and Hassan, two form a relationship, the Klux Klan. navigate life in a Kenyan truth about the island is refugee camp with hope. slowly revealed. Teen Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia, illustrated Witchlight Shadow of the by Gabriel Picolo by Jessi Zabarsky Batgirl DC COMICS, 2019 RANDOM HOUSE GRAPHIC, 2020 by Sarah Kuhn, illustrated ISBN: 9781401286231 ISBN: 9780593120002 by Nicole Goux After losing her memory Sanja convinces cheating DC COMICS, 2020 and a loved one in a witch Lelek to make ISBN: 9781401289782 horrible accident, Raven an honest living, and Raised as a teenage pieces together her past their friendship grows assassin, Cassandra Cain while increasingly strange until Lelek’s life is put in tries to break free from her occurrences make her jeopardy, and Sanja will do father to become more like question her present. anything to save her. her hero, Batgirl. (Part of a series.)

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