Graphic Novels
 Friends With Boys – Faith Erin HicksAfter an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her mother and three older brothers, Maggie enrolls in public high school, where interacting with her peers is complicated by the melancholy ghost that has followed her throughout her entire life. |
 Real – Takehiko InoueA motorcycle accident, bone cancer, a speeding truck crashing into a boy on a stolen bicycoe–tragic, life-changing events turn the worlds of three young men upside-down. These three very different personalities have only one thing in common–their passion for basketball. |
 Runaways, Vol. 1 – Brian K VaughanDo you ever think your parents are evil? In this series, a group of teens find out that their parents are actually super-villains who want to destroy the world. |
 The Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite – Gerard WaySeven misfit superheroes were adopted and raised by a mysterious millionaire, resulting in a seriously dysfunctional family that splits its time between arguing and saving the world. |
 Death Note, Vol. 1 – Tsugumi OhbaWhen ace student Light is given a book with the power to kill and begins to rid the world of evil, the police enlist the help of eccentric genius L to catch him, pitting the two against each other in an epic battle of wits. |
 Kin — Holly BlackSixteen-year-old Rue Silver, whose mother disappeared weeks ago, believes she is going crazy until she learns that the strange things she has been seeing are real, and that she is one of the faerie creatures, or Good Neighbors, that mortals cannot see. |
 American Born Chinese — Gene Luen YangAmerican Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters. Their lives and stories come together with an unexpected twist in this action-packed modern fable. American Born Chinese is an amazing ride, all the way up to the astonishing climax. |
 The Plain Janes — Cecil CastellucciWhen transfer student Jane is forced to move from the confines of Metro City to Suburbia, she thinks her life is over. But she, and three other girls named Jane, form a secret art gang and paint the town P.L.A.I.N. – People Loving Art In Neighborhoods. But can art attacks really save the hell that is high school? |
 Mercury — Hope LarsonTara is forced to move in with her cousins after her house burns down. She faces a difficult adjustment while her mother is away trying to earn money. Interwoven with this story is that of Tara’s ancestors, who in 1859 were convinced by a mysterious stranger to put all their money into searching their property for gold. |
 Bone — Jeff SmithWhen the three Bone cousins are run out of town, they end up getting lost, separated, and then finally reunited in a strange new land. Little do they know that their adventures are only beginning! |
 Tina’s Mouth : an Existential Comic Diary - Keshni Kashyap – Tina Malhotra, a sophomore at the Yarborough Academy in Southern California, creates an existential diary for an honors English assignment in which she tries to determine who she is and where she fits in |
 Rust: Visitor in the Field - Royden Lepp - Life on the Taylor family farm was difficult enough before Jet Jones crashes into the barn, chased by a giant decommissioned war robot! |
 Anya’s Ghost – Vera Brosgol - Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there just may be worse. |
 Page by Paige – Laura Lee Gulledge – When Paige Turner and her family move to New York City from rural Virginia, she tries to make sense of her new life through her sketchbook, and it helps bring her true personality into the open, a process that is equal parts terrifying and rewarding. |
