Gorgeous Graphic Novels
If you have a child that you cannot get to sit down and read a book for the life of you, might I suggest a graphic novel! In my opinion they are one of the most underrated forms of reading, and I will happily stand by that!! Their illustrations offer assistance in keeping your young reader engaged and improves comprehension with visual indicators! And if you have not seen a graphic novel recently, let me just say this, they are GORGEOUS. Below is a list of said “gorgeous graphic novels” for you to place in your child’s hands, and watch them easily escape into a great book!
Copenhagen arrived at the library one day with little memory of who she is, and she’s been stuck here ever since. She takes to helping preserve the library alongside the wise mechanical creatures who tend to its care, but the longer she stays, the more she forgets. Unless she can find her memories, Copenhagen will cease to remember everything that makes her who she is.
But the library has been losing magic for quite some time, and with it, all the memories it holds. To save this wondrous place from ruin, Copenhagen will have to journey deeper into the library than she’s ever ventured before, even if what she finds shatters everything she thought she knew.
Lucy and Frida Buford have never stepped foot outside their family farm in the Carolina Inner Banks. It’s the dead of July, and in the midst of yet another boring summer making jam for the family business, the girls are clamoring to be taken to the elusive town they’ve never been allowed to visit. Their father has always said that the outside world is a dangerous place, but danger is closer to home than they even know.
There’s something in the nearby woods uprooting trees, scaring fish from the water, and scratching at Lucy’s window in the middle of the night. Lucy can’t shake the feeling that there’s a monster out and about—one with two pointy fangs who only comes out at night.
It’s up to these two sisters to discover what this monster wants. But the further they stray from home, the weirder things become. What’s really going on beyond the Buford family farm?
Uncover the bizarre (and more!) in this sinister graphic novel series sure to bring chills and thrills!
New town. New school. Fresh start. Jamie’s determined to keep her hairy legs hidden, her emotions in check, and her monster side locked down. No drama. No disasters. Just one painfully normal middle school year.
Everything seems to be going according to plan until she’s seated next to Vera—the school “vampire”—in English class. Jamie’s popular new friends say to steer clear. But there’s something about Vera that feels … familiar.
The more she and Vera talk, the more Jamie wonders: could there really be other monsters like her out there?
A heart-filled, howl-out-loud graphic novel about identity, belonging, and what it means to finally find your pack.
Charlie has a foolproof plan for the first day at her new middle school. Even though she’s used to starting over as the new kid—thanks to her military family’s constant moving—making friends has never been easy for her. But this time, her first impression needs to last, since this is where her family plans to settle for good.
So she’s hiding any interests that may seem “babyish,” updating her look, and doing her best to leave her shyness behind her…but is erasing the real Charlie the best way to make friends?
When not everything goes exactly to plan, like, AT ALL, Charlie is ready to give up on making new friendships. Then she meets the Curlfriends, a group of Black girls who couldn’t be more different from each other, and learns that maybe there is a place for Charlie to be her true self after all.
Mary Lennox is a loner living in Silicon Valley. With her parents always working, video game and tech become her main source of entertainment and “friends.” When her parents pass away in a tragic accident, she moves to New York City to live with her uncle who she barely knows, and to her surprise, keeps a gadget free home. Looking for comfort in this strange, new reality, Mary discovers an abandoned rooftop garden and an even bigger secret … her cousin who suffers from anxiety.
With the help of her new friends, Colin and Dickon, Mary works to restore the garden to its former glory while also learning to grieve, build real friendships, and grow.
Most kids have five senses. Rosie has six.
Eleven-year-old Rosie can sense colors—and she thought everyone else could, too. After the first meeting of her middle school’s math league ends in confusion, Rosie wonders why nobody seems to know that every letter, number, and song has a special hue of their own. While her best friend Harper is too busy impressing the cool kids to care, Rosie befriends Yara, a lonely classmate who informs her that this condition has a name—synesthesia! But when Rosie’s secret gets out, rumors start to spread. The math league’s first tournament is only a few weeks away, and no one trusts the girl with “brain colors” anymore.
With difficult friendships and a competitive academic club to navigate, can Rosie find the courage to embrace her unique gift after all?
It’s 1952, and in the tiny town of Brookdale, the scent of sugar and springtime fills the air, adventure is only a bike ride away, and four friends—Sam, Frank, Evy, and Henry—are chasing dreams much bigger than their small town can hold.
A regular at the junkyard, Sam Sweet can find anything—except the courage to enter the first Nationwide New Candy Contest. Frank dreams of creating maps that people will want to crawl inside of. New-in-town Evy longs to dazzle with magic tricks. And Frank’s little brother Henry? He just wants to make (and eat!) the fluffiest marshmallows the world has ever seen. Though their dreams are all different, these lifelong friends will learn that when they work together, they can turn the impossible into something wonderfully sweet.
Brimming with heart, humor, and the magic of true friendship, Wendy Mass’s delicious tale, richly illustrated by Keiko Nishijima, is sure to inspire readers to find what they’re meant to do—and the people who will help them get there.
Rose was just trying to get into her school science club—on her own terms, without the help of her famous scientist of a father. All she has to do is convince the club leaders that alchemy is a serious science. But when her attempts to capture video evidence lead her and her best friend Elijah to a mysterious night school rumored to dabble in alchemy, they stumble into an ancient conspiracy involving a phantom snake, hidden codes, and the fabled guardian of the Golden Fleece.
As Rose digs deeper, the line between myth and reality begins to blur. With new friends at her side, she must navigate secret passages, alchemical puzzles, and dangerous truths before the night swallows her whole.
