Gaijin: American Prisoner of War

10 best books like Gaijin: American Prisoner of War (Matt Faulkner): Queen of the Sea, All Summer Long, Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty, Dash, Illegal, Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton, Big Bad Ironclad!, The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo, Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands, The Underground Abductor (An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman)

Queen of the Sea

Author	Dylan Meconis
ISBN	1536204986

Cult graphic novelist Dylan Meconis offers a rich reimagining of history in this hybrid novel loosely based on the exile of Queen Elizabeth I by her sister, Queen Mary.

When her sister seizes the throne, Queen Eleanor of Albion is banished to a tiny island off the coast of her kingdom, where the...

All Summer Long

Author	Hope Larson
ISBN	0374304858

A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel about summer and friendships, written and illustrated by the Eisner Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling Hope Larson.
Thirteen-year-old Bina has a long summer ahead of her. She and her best friend, Austin, usually do everything together,...

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

Author	G. Neri
ISBN	1584302674

In August of 1994, 11-year-old Robert “Yummy” Sandifer — nicknamed for his love of sweets — fired a gun at a group of rival gangmembers, accidentally killing a neighborhood girl, Shavon Dean. Police searched Chicago’s southside for three days before finding Yummy dead in a railway tunnel,...

Dash

Author	Kirby Larson
ISBN	0545416353

New from Newbery Honor author Kirby Larson, the moving story of a Japanese-American girl who is separated from her dog upon being sent to an incarceration camp during WWII.

Although Mitsi Kashino and her family are swept up in the wave of anti-Japanese sentiment following the attack on Pearl...

Illegal

Author

Eoin Colfer

This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for all children with glorious colour artwork throughout. From Eoin Colfer, previously Irish Children's Laureate, and the team behind his bestselling Artemis Fowl graphic novels. Ebo: alone.His...

Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton

Author

Matt Phelan

Matt Phelan, graphic novelist extraordinaire, presents a rollicking tribute to vaudeville, small-town dreams, and Buster Keaton as a boy.

In the summer of 1908, in Muskegon, Michigan, a visiting troupe of vaudeville performers is about the most exciting thing since baseball. They’re...

Big Bad Ironclad!

Author	Nathan Hale
ISBN	1419703951

An alternate cover edition can be found here.

Each of the books in Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales has elements of the strange but true and is presented in an engaging, funny format, highlighting the larger-than-life characters that pop up in real history. Big Bad Ironclad! covers the history...

The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo

Author	Drew Weing
ISBN	1626723397

Charles just moved to Echo City, and some of his new neighbors give him the creeps. They sneak into his room, steal his toys, and occasionally, they try to eat him.

The place is teeming with monsters!

Lucky for Charles, Echo City has Margo Maloo, monster mediator. No matter who’s causing...

Neighborhood Sharks: Hunting with the Great Whites of California's Farallon Islands

Author	Katherine Roy
ISBN	1596438746

Up close with the ocean's most fearsome and famous predator and the scientists who study them—just thirty miles from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge!

A few miles from San Francisco lives a population of the ocean's largest and most famous predators. Each fall, while the city's inhabitants...

The Underground Abductor (An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman)

Author	Nathan Hale
ISBN	1419715364

Araminta Ross was born a slave in Delaware in the early 19th century. Slavery meant that her family could be ripped apart at any time, and that she could be put to work in dangerous places and for abusive people. But north of the Mason-Dixon line, slavery was illegal. If she could run away and make it north...

Dogs of War

Author	Sheila Keenan
ISBN	0545128870

Sheila Keenan's captivating stories, paired with Nathan Fox's stunning art, bring the heroic military actions of man's best friend to life!

Some war heroes heard the wind whistling over a hidden trip wire.
Some war heroes sniffed out a sniper 1,000 yards away.
Some war heroes stood...

No Ivy League

Author	Hazel Newlevant
ISBN	1549303058

When 17-year-old Hazel Newlevant takes a summer job clearing ivy from the forest in her home town of Portland, Oregon, her only expectation is to earn a little money. Homeschooled, affluent, and sheltered, Hazel soon finds her job working side by side with at-risk teens to be an initiation into a new...

NewsPrints

Author

Ru Xu

Blue is an orphan who disguises herself as a newsboy. There's a war going on, and girls are expected to help the struggling economy by selling cookies. But Blue loves living and working at the Bugle, the only paper in town that tells the truth. And what's printed in the newspapers now matters more than ever.

But...

The Mystery Boxes

Author	Kazu Kibuishi
ISBN	1419700103

WHAT'S IN THE BOX?

Find out in these seven clever stories by eight incredible comics creators!

Under the Floorboards by Emily Carroll
A box, a doll...but it's no ordinary plaything!

Spring Cleaning by Dave Roman & Raina Telgemeier
There really is mystery in...