TEEN BOOK RECS GRAPHIC NOVELS FEATURED PICKS WE ALSO LOVE TEEN BOOK RECS GRAPHIC NOVELS Nubia: Real One by L.L. McKinney FEATURED PICKS Nubia has always stood out because of her Amazonian strength, but even though she uses her ability for good she is seen as a threat, so when her The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp best friend Quisha is threatened, Nubia risks everything to become the hero After a gunshot leaves her paralyzed, Barbara Gordon enters the Arkham society tells her she is not. Center for Independence, where Gotham's teens undergo physical and mental rehabilitation. Now using a wheelchair, Barbara must adapt to a new Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer normal, but she cannot shake the feeling that something is amiss. For this ragtag band of space gays, liberation means beating the patriarchy at its own game. Shadow of the Batgirl by Sara Kuhn Cassandra Cain is a living weapon trained to be the ultimate assassin, but Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable when her father threatens the world she has grown to love, she will have to Mads' dad is hiding something big—so big it could tear her family apart. overcome that voice inside her head telling her she can never be a hero. That’s just the beginning of her problems: she is starting to figure out that she doesn't want to kiss Adam, because the only person she wants to kiss is Cat. Young Avengers by Allan Heinberg When a mysterious group of young super heroes appears calling themselves Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary the Young Avengers, Captain America and Iron Man try to find out the Valero-O'Connell identity of this new group. Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend. The great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor and the daughter of ardent Marxists describes growing up in Tehran in a country plagued by political Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang upheaval and vast contradictions between public and private life. An introverted reader starts understanding local enthusiasm about sports in his school when he gets to know some of his talented athletic peers and Amazons, Abolitionists and Activists: a graphic history of women's discovers that their stories are just as thrilling as the comics he loves. fight for their rights by Mikki Kendall A bold and gripping graphic history of the fight for women's rights. Fangirl: the Manga by Rainbow Rowell; adapted by Sam Maggs When twin sisters Cath and Wren go to college, Cath fears that it may be The Witch Boy by Molly Knox Ostertag time to give up her love of the Simon Snow series, and possibly grow apart In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while from her sister. boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn't shifted . . . and he's still Teen Titans: Beast Boy by Kami Garcia fascinated by witchery, no matter how forbidden it might be. Seventeen-year-old Garfield Logan finally impresses the social elite at his high school, but popularity comes at a price when he undergoes sudden March by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin physical changes as the dares from his new friends escalate. This graphic novel trilogy is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern Guantánamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Prison by Sarah Mirk An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it Flamer by Mike Curato changed forever. In the summer between middle school and high school, Aiden Navarro navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and finds himself drawn to Elias, a Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang boy he can't stop thinking about. When her family is targeted by the KKK after moving from Chinatown to 1946 Downtown Metropolis, misfit Roberta Lee uses her keen skills of observation MORE TO LOVE to help Superman thwart a string of terrorist attacks. The Low Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook and Ryan Estrada When your memories are stolen, what would you give to remember? Follow The gripping true story of a South Korean woman's student days under an El and Vee as they search for answers to the questions everyone else forgot. authoritarian regime in the early 1980s, and how she defied state censorship through the rebellion of reading. Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence by Joel Gill Propelled into a world filled with uncertainty and desperation, young Joel is Displacement by Kiku Hughes pushed toward using violence to solve his problems by everything and On a visit to San Francisco, Kiku finds herself transported in time back to the everyone around him. 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. Blue Flag by KAITO An unexpected love quadrangle with a dash of unrequited love as two The Dark Matter of Mona Starr by Laura Lee Gulledge classmates, a boy and a girl, begin to fall for each other when each of their Mona Starr learns how to manage profound feelings of unworthiness best friends have already fallen for them. through therapy, art, writing and the support of a few good friends. Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama Class Act by Jerry Craft A beautifully-illustrated story about a girl who longs for magic in her life and Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he isn't afforded the same learns that, on the inside, she already is what she wishes she could be. opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted. Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell Working at a pumpkin patch every autumn, Deja and Josiah plan the ultimate The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen Halloween night to celebrate their last year working together. Tiêń loves his family and his friends, but Tiêń has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it might change everything. Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn't know is that the wife he's chosen is an assassin and the child he's adopted is a telepath.