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Graphic novels are a great way to explore new stories—or revisit well-loved ones in whole new ways. Frequently filled with visual color and always with jaw-dropping artwork, if y'all haven't tried ane, you're definitely missing out! There are so many crawly stories in the graphic novel earth—especially the YA graphic novel earth—and if you're totally willing to dive in, then in that location's no improve fourth dimension than now!

If you lot don't know which ones to read first or don't know where to start searching—accept no fear! This list of #epicreads (ha, get it?) can help you lot find the perfect graphic novel to start and autumn in love with. Before you know it, your TBR list will skyrocket in graphic novel numbers.

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43 Must-Read YA Graphic Novels

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1. Girl on Fire

Written by Alicia Keys and Andrew Weiner, illustrated by Brittney Williams

FromNew York Timesbestselling author and 15-time GRAMMY® Award-winning artist Alicia Keys comes a new authentic and poignant coming-of-historic period young adult graphic novel, about finding the strength within when your whole world changes in an instant.

Lolo Wright e'er thought she was just a regular xiv-year-old dealing with regular family unit drama: her brother, James, is struggling with his studies; her dad'due south business constantly teeters on the edge of trouble; and her mother . . . she left long ago. Only and so Lolo'south world explodes when a cop pulls a gun on James in a unsafe case of mistaken identities. Staring downward the barrel, with no one else to help, Lolo discovers powers she never knew she had. Using just her mind, she literally throws the cop out of the way.

Trouble is that secrets similar Lolo's don't stay a surreptitious for long. Skin, a unsafe dealer with designs on taking over the neighborhood, hears of Lolo'due south telekinetic abilities and decides that he needs her in his crew. Pare might not accept Lolo's powers, but he'south got nothing to lose and is willing to do whatever it takes to get what he wants. And what he wants is Lolo.

Lolo's not willing to let Pare use her to hurt the people—and neighborhood—that she loves. Merely it's going to take a whole different kind of bravery to stand up-up for what'southward correct, especially after Lolo'south mom returns of a sudden and turns Lolo's whole earth upside-down. For as well long, information technology'southward true, Lolo's had her head in the clouds, merely this fourth dimension, it's on her . . . and she's non backing down.

Daughter on Burn is a immature developed graphic novel about a girl who's a flame. It's the first-ever graphic novel from beloved GRAMMY® Honor-winning artist Alicia Keys, co-written by Andrew Weiner and illustrated by Brittney Williams.

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ii. Squire

Written by Nadia Shammas, illustrated past Sara Alfageeh

From two incredible ascent talents comes the fantasy graphic novel Molly Knox Ostertag calls "instantly compelling."

Aiza has always dreamt of condign a Knight. Information technology's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt-Sajji Empire, and equally a fellow member of the subjugated Ornu people, Knighthood is her only path to full citizenship. Ravaged by famine and mounting tensions, Bayt-Sajji finds itself on the brink of war once again, so Aiza can finally enlist in the competitive Squire training program.

It'due south not how she imagined it, though. Aiza must navigate new friendships, rivalries, and rigorous grooming under the unyielding General Hende, all while hiding her Ornu background. As the force per unit area mounts, Aiza realizes that the "greater proficient" that Bayt-Sajji'southward military promises might not include her, and that the recruits might be in greater danger than she always imagined.

In this breathtaking and timely story, Aiza will accept to choose, once and for all: loyalty to her centre and heritage, or loyalty to the Empire.

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iii. Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American

Written and illustrated by Laura Gao

"Messy Roots is a express joy-out-loud, heartfelt, and deeply engaging story of their journey to detect themself–as an American, as the daughter of Chinese immigrants, every bit a queer person, and as a Wuhanese American in the middle of a pandemic."—Malaka Gharib, author ofI Was Their American Dream

Afterward spending her early years in Wuhan, People's republic of china, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is every bit strange every bit Mars—at to the lowest degree until 2020, when COVID-19 makes Wuhan a household name.

InMessy Roots, Laura illustrates her coming-of-age as the daughter who but wants to make the basketball squad, escape Chinese school, and effigy out why girls make her heart flutter.

Insightful, original, and hilarious, toggling seamlessly between by and present, People's republic of china and America, Gao'due south debut is a tour de force of graphic storytelling.

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4. Squad

Written by Maggie Tokuda-Hall and illustrated by Lisa Sterle

Pretty Footling Liars meetsTeen Wolf in this sharply funny, and patriarchy-slap-up graphic novel from author Maggie Tokuda-Hall and creative person Lisa Sterle. When the new daughter is invited to join her loftier school'south virtually popular clique, she tin't believe her luck—and she tin can't believe their secret, either.

When Becca transfers to a high school in an elite San Francisco suburb, she'south worried she'due south not going to fit in. To her surprise, she's immediately adopted by the most pop girls in school. At get-go glance, Marley, Arianna, and Mandy are perfect. But at a party nether a full moon, Becca learns that they besides have a big hugger-mugger.

Becca'due south new friends are werewolves. Their prey? Slimy boys who take advantage of unsuspecting girls. Eager to be accepted, Becca allows her friends to turn her into a werewolf, and finally, for the showtime time in her life, she feels like she truly belongs.

But then things get complicated. As their pack begins to buckle nether the pressure, their moral high ground gets muddier and muddier—and Becca realizes that she might have feelings for one of her new best friends.

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5. Incredible Doom

Written and illustrated by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden

Welcome to a new age…the age of the internet.

Allison is drowning nether the weight of her manipulative stage magician father. When he brings home the family'southward first calculator, she escapes into a thrilling new globe where she meetings Samir, a like-minded new online friend who has just agreed to run away from domicile with her.

After moving to a new town and leaving all of his friends behind, Richard receives a mysterious note in his locker with instructions on how to connect to "Evol Bulletin board system," a punch-in bulletin board system, and meets a fierce punk named Tina who comes into his life and shakes his entire worldview loose.

Unlikely alliances, first honey, and minor criminal offense sprees abound in this teen graphic novel debut almost making connections while your world is falling apart.

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6. The Burn down Will Never Leave

Written and illustrated by Noelle Stevenson

In a collection of essays and personal mini-comics that span eight years of her immature adult life, author-illustrator Noelle Stevenson charts the highs and lows of being a creative human in the world.

Whether it'due south hearing the wrong proper name called at her art school graduation ceremony or becoming a National Book Award finalist for her debut graphic novel,Nimona, Noelle captures the little and big moments that make up a real life, with a wit, wisdom, and vulnerability that are all her own.

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seven. Hey, Kiddo

Written and illustrated by by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's instructor asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett'south family unit is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery — Jarrett doesn't know where to detect him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents — two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along.

Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life equally normal every bit possible, finding a manner to express himself through cartoon even as and so little is being said to him about what'southward going on. Only as a teenager tin can Jarrett brainstorm to slice together the truth of his family, reckoning with his female parent and tracking down his father.

Hey, Kiddo is a greatly important memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction, and finding the fine art that helps you survive.

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8. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

Written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell

Laura Dean, the virtually pop girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: mannerly, confident, and then cute. There'southward merely ane trouble: Laura Dean is maybe non the greatest girlfriend.

Reeling from her latest break upwardly, Freddy's best friend, Putter, introduces her to the Seek-Her, a mysterious medium, who leaves Freddy some ambiguous departing words: interruption up with her. But Laura Dean keeps coming back, and equally their relationship spirals further out of her control, Freddy has to wonder if information technology's really Laura Dean that's the trouble. Perhaps it's Freddy, who is speedily losing her friends, including Doodle, who needs her now more than ever.

Fortunately for Freddy, at that place are new friends, and the insight of communication columnists like Anna Vice to aid her through beingness a teenager in honey.

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9. Nimona

Written and illustrated by Noelle Stevenson

Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: bear witness to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are.

Only as pocket-sized acts of mischief escalate into a roughshod boxing, Lord Blackheart realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her by. And her unpredictable wild side might be more unsafe than he is willing to acknowledge.

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10. Displacement

Written and illustrated by Kiku Hughes

Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when all of a sudden she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment campsite that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II.

These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself ""stuck"" dorsum in time. Living aslope her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the didactics she never received in history class. She witnesses the lives of Japanese-Americans who were denied their ceremonious liberties and suffered greatly, just managed to cultivate community and commit acts of resistance in society to survive.

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11. Mooncakes

Written by Suzanne Walker and illustrated past Wendy Xu

Nova Huang knows more almost magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmothers' bookshop, where she helps them loan out spell books and investigate any supernatural occurrences in their New England town.

One fateful night, she follows reports of a white wolf into the woods, and she comes across the unexpected: her childhood crush, Tam Lang, battling a horse demon in the woods. Every bit a werewolf, Tam has been wandering from place to place for years, unable to call whatever town home.

Pursued by night forces eager to claim the magic of wolves and out of options, Tam turns to Nova for assist. Their latent feelings are rekindled against the backdrop of witchcraft, untested magic, occult rituals, and family ties both new and old in this enchanting tale of self-discovery.

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12. Monster: A Graphic Novel

Written past Walter Dean Myers, adapted by Guy A. Sims and illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile

Monster is a multi-honour-winning, provocative coming-of-historic period story nigh Steve Harmon, a teenager awaiting trial for a murder and robbery. As Steve acclimates to juvenile detention and goes to trial, he envisions how his ordeal would play out on the big screen.

Guy A. Sims, the acclaimed writer of the Brotherman series of comic books, collaborated with his brother, the illustrator Dawud Anyabwile, in this thrilling black-and-white graphic novel adaption of Monster.

Monster was the beginning-ever Michael L. Printz Award recipient, an ALA Best Book, a Coretta Scott King Award selection, and a National Book Award finalist.Monster is also now a major motion movie calledAll Rise starring Jennifer Hudson, Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Nas, and A$AP Rocky.

Fans ofMonster and of the piece of work of Walter Dean Myers—and even kids who think they don't like to read—will devour this graphic adaptation.

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xiii. Almost American Daughter

Written and illustrated by Robin Ha

For as long every bit she can retrieve, it's been Robin and her mom against the globe. Growing up as the merely child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't e'er like shooting fish in a barrel, but it has bonded them fiercely together.

So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes a permanent relocation—following her mother's announcement that she'south getting married—Robin is devastated.

Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new school where she doesn't sympathise the language and struggles to keep up. She is completely cutting off from her friends in Seoul and has no access to her beloved comics. At habitation, she doesn't fit in with her new stepfamily, and worst of all, she is furious with the one person she is closest to—her mother.

Then i day Robin'southward female parent enrolls her in a local comic drawing class, which opens the window to a futurity Robin could never have imagined.

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14. Graceling: The Graphic Novel

Written past Kristin Cashore, and adapted and illustrated by Gareth Hinds

Katsa is a Graceling, 1 of the rare people born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she lived a life of privilege until the twenty-four hours her ability to kill a man with her bare easily revealed itself during a imperial banquet. Now she acts every bit her uncle's enforcer, traveling the kingdom and threatening those who dare oppose him.

But everything changes when she meets Po, a foreign prince Graced with combat skills who is searching for the truth about his grandpa'due south disappearance. When Katsa agrees to help him, she never expects to learn a new truth about her ain Grace—or nigh a terrible secret that could destroy them all.

With "gorgeous storytelling" (School Library Journal, starred review) and characters "crafted with meticulous devotion" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review),Gracelingis a beloved classic that has connected to resonate with readers for over a decade.

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xv. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel

Written by Ransom Riggs and illustrated by Cassandra Jean

When Jacob Portman was a boy, his grandfather regaled him with stories of his fantastic life at Miss Peregrine's abode during the Second World War, even sharing photos of the remarkable children with whom he resided. As Jacob grew up, though, he decided that these photos were obvious fakes, simple forgeries designed to stir his youthful imagination. Or were they…?

Following his grandfather's death – a scene Jacob literally couldn't believe with his ain eyes – the sixteen-yr-old boy embarks on a mission to uncrease fact from fiction in his granddad's tall tales. But even his granddad'southward elaborate yarns couldn't fix Jacob for the eccentricities he will notice at Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children!

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16. Teen Titans: Raven

Written past Kami Garcia and illustrated by Gabriel Picolo

When a tragic accident takes the life of seventeen-year-old Raven Roth'south foster mom—and Raven's retentivity—she moves to New Orleans to live with her foster mother's family unit and stop her senior year of high schoolhouse.

Starting over isn't easy. Raven remembers how to solve math equations and make pasta, but she tin can't remember her favorite vocal or who she was before the accident. When strange things start happening—things about people would consider impossible—Raven starts to think it might be better not to know who she was in her previous life.

But equally she grows closer to her foster sister, Max, her new friends, and Tommy Torres, a guy who accepts her for who she is at present, Raven has to make up one's mind if she's ready to face what'due south buried in the past…and the darkness building inside her.

From the #1 New York Times best-selling co-author of Beautiful Creatures Kami Garcia and artist Gabriel Picolo comes this beginning graphic novel in the Teen Titans series for DC Ink, Teen Titans: Raven.

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17. Paper Girls

By Brian M. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang, Matthew Wilson, & Jared K. Fletcher

Erin Tieng, a new resident of Stony Stream, is a recently hired paper delivery girl. While out delivering newspapers in the early on hours of the morn of Nov 1, 1988, Erin meets Mac, KJ, and Tiffany, a group of friends and fellow paper girls who invite Erin to join them.

The girls are soon attacked past a group of teenagers; 1 of the teens steals a walkie-talkie from Tiffany. The girls subsequently chase the grouping to a construction business firm and find what appears to be a time automobile in the basement. They are then struck by mysterious free energy emanating from the machine. The girls learn that the teenagers are fourth dimension-travelers from the distant time to come, who are engaged in an ongoing war with a group known as the "Old-Timers"—known as "The Boxing of the Ages." At the center of this disharmonize is the question of whether or not the past tin and should exist changed by future time-travelers.

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18. Monstress

By Marjorie M. Liu, Sana Takeda, Rus Wooton, & Yoshi Yoshitani

Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of state of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and brand them the target of both human and otherworldly powers.

New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer Marjorie Liu is all-time known for her fiction and comic books. She teaches comic book writing at MIT, and leads a form on Popular Fiction at the Voices of Our Nation (VONA) workshop. Ms. Liu'due south extensive work includes the bestselling "Amazing X-Men" for Marvel Comics, which featured the gay wedding of Ten-Man Northstar and was subsequently nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding media images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Prior to writing total-time, Liu was a lawyer. She currently resides in Boston.

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xix. Runaways: Discover Your Way Home

By Rainbow Rowell and Kris Anka

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The "It" book of the early 2000s with the original cast is back–Nico! Karolina! Molly! Chase! Old Lace! And, could information technology be… GERT?!

The heart of the Runaways died years ago, but you won't believe how she returns! Superstar author Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park, Carry On) makes her Curiosity debut with fan-favorite artist Kris Anka (ALL-NEW X-MEN, Helm MARVEL) in the series that will shock you and suspension your heart!

Did Hunt and Gert'due south love survive their time autonomously? Have Karolina and Nico'southward feelings made their friendship impossible? What emotional landmines lie in wait to DESTROY the Runaways?!

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20. The Complete Maus

By Fine art Spiegelman

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler'due south Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the atomic. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks usa out of whatever lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in "drawing united states of america closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust."

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the writer'due south business relationship of his tortured relationship with his crumbling male parent. Against the backdrop of guilt brought past survival, they phase a normal life of small-scale arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century'southward grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the encarmine pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of the states.

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21. The Graveyard Book

Past Neil Gaiman

The commencement paperback edition of the glorious two-book, full-color graphic novel adaptation of Neil Gaiman's #ane New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning novel The Graveyard Book.

Afterwards the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents concur to enhance him equally one of their own.

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal male child. He would exist completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. In that location are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. Just if Bod leaves the graveyard, and then he will come under set on from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family…

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22. The Prince and the Dressmaker

By Jen Wang

Paris, at the dawn of the modern age:

Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride―or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too decorated hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabled Lady Crystallia―the hottest fashion icon in the globe capital of fashion!

Sebastian's secret weapon (and best friend) is the brilliant dressmaker Frances―one of merely ii people who know the truth: sometimes this boy wears dresses. Only Frances dreams of greatness, and existence someone's secret weapon means being a clandestine. Forever. How long can Frances defer her dreams to protect a friend? Jen Wang weaves an exuberantly romantic tale of identity, young love, fine art, and family. A fairy tale for whatever age, The Prince and the Dressmaker will steal your center.

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23. Check, Please!: #Hockey

Past Ngozi Ukazu

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Y'all… I might non be set up for this. I may be a former inferior effigy skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge. It's goose egg like co-ed gild hockey back in Georgia! Starting time of all? There's checking. And so, at that place is Jack—our very bonny but moody helm.

A drove of the commencement half of the megapopular webcomic series of the same proper name, Check, Please!: #Hockey is the kickoff book of a hilarious and stirring two-volume coming-of-historic period story about hockey, bros, and trying to detect yourself during the all-time four years of your life.

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24. Zodiac Starforce: By the Power of Astra

By Kevin Panetta and Paulina Ganucheau

They're an elite group of teenage girls with magical powers who have sworn to protect our planet against dark creatures . . . as long as they can become out of class! Known equally the Zodiac Starforce, these high-school girls aren't only combating math tests. They're likewise contesting monsters–not your typical afterschool activity! Only when an evil force from another dimension infects team leader Emma, she must work with her squad of magically powered friends to save herself–and the globe–from the evil Diana and her hateful-girl minions!

From Kevin Panetta (Bravest Warriors) and Paulina Ganucheau (TMNT: New Animated Adventures, Bravest Warriors), this super-fun and heartfelt story of growing upwards and friendship–with plenty of magical-daughter fighting action–delivers the nearly exciting new ensemble cast in comics!

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25. Deadly Class: Reagan Youth

By Rick Remender, Wes Craig, Lee Loughride, & David Lapham

It's 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can't focus in form. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin's tiptop assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the course he'southward failing is "Dismemberment 101," and his vanquish has a double-digit torso count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the earth'southward pinnacle offense families send the next generation of assassins to exist trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion Schoolhouse for the Mortiferous Arts, the dagger in your back isn't e'er metaphorical.

Collecting the first arc of the virtually critically acclaimed new serial of 2014, by author RICK REMENDER (BLACK Scientific discipline, Fear Agent) and rise star artist WESLEY CRAIG (Batman). Feel the 1980s secret through the eyes of the world's nigh damaged and dangerous teenagers.

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26. Archie: The New Riverdale

By Mark Waid, Fiona Staples, Annie Wu, & Veronica Fish

America's Favorite Teenager, Archie Andrews, is reborn in the pages of this must-accept graphic novel collecting the first six bug of the comic volume serial that everyone is talking about. Meet Riverdale High teen Archie, his oddball, food-loving best friend Jughead, girl-next-door Betty and well-to-do snob Veronica Lodge equally they commence on a modern reimagining of the beloved Archie world. It's all here: the love triangle, friendship, humour, charm and lots of fun – merely with a incomparably modern twist.

Brought to yous by some of the masters of the comic book genre, including writer Mark Waid and the all-star lineup of artists: Fiona Staples, Annie Wu and Veronica Fish, the first volume of ARCHIE presents readers with a new take on the dearest Archie Comics concepts while retaining the best elements from the company'south 75 years of history. ARCHIE VOL. 1 collects ARCHIE #i-6 and features bonus content including scripts, sketches, variant covers and the full first issue of the all new JUGHEAD series by acclaimed writer Chip Zdarsky and artist Erica Henderson.

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27. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: The Crucible

By Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Robert Hack

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, the young sorceress Sabrina Spellman finds herself at a crossroads, having to choose between an unearthly destiny and her mortal beau, Harvey. But a foe from her family's past has arrived in Greendale, Madame Satan, and she has her own deadly calendar.

At long final, the surreptitious history of the Queen of Hell is revealed, and she sets her vengeful gaze upon the Spellman family. No one, specially those shut to Sabrina, is safe, and very, very presently, the tranquillity streets of Greendale will run red with blood…

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28. I Am Alfonso Jones

By Tony Media, John Jennings, & Stacey Robinson

Alfonso Jones tin't look to play the role of Hamlet in his schoolhouse's hip-hop rendition of the classic Shakespearean play. He also wants to let his best friend, Danetta, know how he really feels near her. But as he is buying his first arrange, an off-duty police officer mistakes a dress hanger for a gun, and he shoots Alfonso.

When Alfonso wakes upwardly in the afterlife, he'south on a ghost train guided by well-known victims of constabulary shootings, who teach him what he needs to know most this subterranean spiritual world. Meanwhile, Alfonso's family and friends struggle with their grief and seek justice for Alfonso in the streets. As they confront their new realities, both Alfonso and those he loves realize the work that lies alee in the fight for justice.

In the kickoff graphic novel for young readers to focus on police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, as in Hamlet, the dead shall speak—and the living yield even more surprises.

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29. Ms. Marvel: No Normal

By One thousand. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona

Curiosity Comics presents the new Ms. Marvel, the groundbreaking heroine that has become an international awareness!

Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Bailiwick of jersey City — until she's all of a sudden empowered with boggling gifts. Simply who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman? Find out equally she takes the Marvel Universe by storm! When Kamala discovers the dangers of her newfound powers, she unlocks a clandestine behind them, likewise. Is Kamala ready to wield these immense new gifts? Or will the weight of the legacy before her be too much to conduct? Kamala has no idea, either. But she's comin' for you lot, Jersey!

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30. Contend

By C.S. Pacat, Johanna the Mad, & Joana Lafuente

Nicholas Cox is determined to prove himself in the world of competitive fencing, and earn his identify alongside fencing legends like the dad he never knew, but things get more complicated when he's upwards against his gilded-boy half-brother, likewise equally sullen fencing prodigy, Seiji Katayama.

Nicholas, the illegitimate son of a retired fencing champion, is a scrappy fencing wunderkind, and dreams of getting the chance and the training to actually compete. After getting accepted to the prodigious Kings Row private schoolhouse, Nicholas is thrust into a cut-throat globe, and finds himself facing not only his gilt-boy one-half-brother, but the unbeatable, mysterious Seiji Katayama…

Through clashes, rivalries, and romance betwixt teammates, Nicholas and the boys of Kings Row will notice there's much more than to fencing than just foils and lunges.

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31. Speak: The Graphic Novel

By Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll

"Speak up for yourself—nosotros want to know what you take to say."

From the kickoff moment of her freshman year at Merryweather Loftier, Melinda knows this is a large fat lie, office of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she disrepair an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so at present nobody will talk to her, let solitary heed to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Simply her art class offers any solace, and information technology is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped past an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another trigger-happy encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back, refuses to be silent, and thereby achieves a measure out of vindication.

In the graphic adaptation of Laurie Halse Anderson's powerful novel, an utterly conceivable heroine with a bitterly ironic voice delivers a blow to the hypocritical earth of high school. She speaks for many a disenfranchised teenager while demonstrating the importance of speaking upwards for oneself.

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32. My Boyfriend Is a Behave

By Pamela Ribon and Cat Farris

A story of girl meets acquit.

Nora has bad luck with men. When she meets an (actual) bear on a hike in the Los Angeles hills, he turns out to be the all-time romantic partner she's ever had! He's considerate, he'southward sweet, he takes care of her.

Just he's a bear, and winning over her friends and family is difficult.

Not to mention he has to hibernate all winter.

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33. Anya's Ghost

By Vera Brosgol

Anya could really use a friend. Simply her new BFF isn't kidding well-nigh the "Forever" part.

Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was non one of them. Specially not a new friend who'southward been dead for a century.

Falling downwardly a well is bad enough, only Anya'due south normal life might really be worse. She'due south embarrassed by her family, self-conscious near her body, and she's pretty much given up on plumbing equipment in at school. A new friend—even a ghost—is just what she needs.

Or so she thinks. Chilling, sardonic, and secretly sincere, Anya's Ghost is a wonderfully entertaining debut from author/artist Vera Brosgol.

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34. The Wicked + the Divine

Past Kieron Gillen & Clayton Cowles, illustrated past Jamie McKelvie, colored past Matt Wilson

Every 90 years, twelve gods incarnate as humans.

They are loved. They are hated.

In two years, they are expressionless.

The squad behind critically thermonuclear flooring-fillers Young Avengers and Phonogram reunite to first a new, ongoing, superhero fantasy with a beautiful, oversized result. Welcome to The Wicked + The Divine, where gods are the ultimate popular stars and pop stars are the ultimate gods. Merely remember: just because yous're immortal, doesn't mean you lot're going to alive forever.

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35. This One Summertime

By Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki

Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, their refuge. Rosie'southward friend Windy is e'er there, as well, like the little sister she never had. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and when Rose and Windy seek a distraction from the drama, they observe themselves with a whole new set of problems. Information technology'due south a summer of secrets and sorrow and growing upwardly, and it's a good thing Rose and Windy have each other.

In This One Summer two stellar creators redefine the teen graphic novel. Cousins Mariko and Jillian Tamaki, the squad behind Skim, accept collaborated on this gorgeous, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful story about a daughter on the cusp of her teen historic period — a story of renewal and revelation.

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36. The Complete Persepolis

By Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa, Blake Ferris, & Anjali Singh

Here, in ane volume: Marjane Satrapi's best-selling, internationally acclaimed graphic memoir.

Persepolis is the story of Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her loftier school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming–both sugariness and terrible; and, finally, of her cocky-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. Information technology is the relate of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.

Edgy, searingly observant, and candid, oftentimes heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and difficult-earned wisdom—Persepolis is a stunning work from ane of the most highly regarded, singularly talented graphic artists at work today.

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37. Lumberjanes: Beware the Kitten Holy

By Noelle Stevenson, Grace Ellis, Faith Hicks, Brooke A. Allen, & more

FRIENDSHIP TO THE MAX!

At Miss Qiunzilla Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's camp for difficult-core lady-types, things are not what they seem.

Three-eyed foxes. Secret caves. Anagrams.

Luckily, Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are five rad, butt-kicking best pals adamant to have an crawly summer together… And they're not gonna permit a magical quest or an array of supernatural critters arrive their way! The mystery keeps getting bigger, and information technology all begins hither.

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38. Wires and Nerve

By Marissa Meyer and Douglas Holgate

In her outset graphic novel, bestselling writer Marissa Meyer extends the earth of the Lunar Chronicles with a brand-new, action-packed story about Iko, the android with a heart of (mechanized) gold.

When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers' leader. She is shortly working with a handsome regal baby-sit who forces her to question everything she knows virtually love, loyalty, and her own humanity.

With appearances by Cinder and the rest of the Rampion crew, this is a must-have for fans of the bestselling series.

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39. Spill Zone

By Scott Westerfeld, Alex Puvilland, & Hilary Sycamore

Nobody'due south ever really explained the Spill.

Was it an angelic visitation? A nanotech blow? A porthole opening from another globe?

Whatever it was, no ane's allowed in the Spill Zone these days except government scientists and hazmat teams. But a few intrepid explorers know how to sneak through the patrols and steer clear of the dangers inside the Zone.

Addison Merrick is one such explorer, dedicated to finding out what happened that night and to unraveling the events that took her parents and left her little sis mute and asunder from the globe.

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40. Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

By Pénélope Bagieu

Throughout history and across the earth, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their dogged spirit. Against overwhelming arduousness, these remarkable women raised their voices and inverse history.

With her 1-of-a-kind wit and dazzling drawings, historic graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female function models, some world-famous, some picayune known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the side by side generation of rebel ladies.

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41. Bandette: Presto!

By Paul Tobin, Colleen Cover, and more than

She is alluring…

She is mysterious…

She is bandette…

The world's greatest thief is a costumed teen burglar by the nome d'arte of Bandette! Gleefully plying her skills on either side of the law aslope her network of street urchins, Bandette is a thorn in the side of both Police Inspector Belgique and the criminal underworld. Merely information technology'south not all breaking hearts and purloining masterpieces when a rival thief makes a startling discovery. Can even Bandette express joy off a plot against her life?

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42. Fable: The Graphic Novel

Written past Marie Lu, adapted by Leigh Dragoon, and illustrated by Kaari

One time unknown equally the western coast of U.s.a., the Democracy is now a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors, the Colonies

Built-in into an elite family in one of the Republic'south wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a military prodigy. Obedient, passionate, and committed to her country, she is being groomed for success in the Commonwealth'due south highest circles.

Built-in into the slums of the Republic's Lake Sector, fifteen-yr-old Mean solar day is the state's virtually wanted criminal. Just his motives may non be as malicious equally they seem.

From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths – until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered, and Day becomes the prime number suspect. Now, defenseless in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June tries desperately to avenge Metias's death.

Just in a shocking plough of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths to which their country will go to go on its secrets.

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43. The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen

Trung Le Nguyen's graphic novel is an awe-inspiring story about how fairy tales and storytelling tin connect a boy and his mother together past their linguistic communication barrier.

Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he'south been keeping from them, and it might alter everything. An astonishing YA graphic novel that deals with the complexity of family unit and how stories tin bring us together.

Existent life isn't a fairytale.

But Tiến still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a child, merely for Tiến, he doesn't fifty-fifty take the right words considering his parents are struggling with their English. Is at that place a Vietnamese word for what he's going through?

Is in that location a way to tell them he'south gay?

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