How Mirka Met a Meteorite

10 best books like How Mirka Met a Meteorite (Barry Deutsch): Zita the Spacegirl, Sidekicks, The Return of Zita the Spacegirl, Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists, The Adventures of Superhero Girl, Target Practice, Hilda and the Bird Parade, Around the World, Bluffton: My Summers with Buster Keaton, Odd Duck

Zita the Spacegirl

Author	Ben Hatke
ISBN	1596434465

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Zita's life took a cosmic left turn in the blink of an eye.

When her best friend is abducted by an alien doomsday cult, Zita leaps to the rescue and finds herself a stranger on a strange planet. Humanoid chickens and neurotic robots are shocking enough as new...

Sidekicks

Author	Dan Santat
ISBN	0439298199

INTRODUCING: METAL MUTT! STATIC CAT! AND... FLUFFY!?!

Captain Amazing, hero of Metro City, is so busy catching criminals that he rarely has time for his pets at home. He doesn't even notice when they develop superpowers of their own.

So when he announces that he needs a sidekick, his...

The Return of Zita the Spacegirl

Author	Ben Hatke
ISBN	1596438762

Ben Hatke brings back our intrepid space heroine for another delightful sci-fi/fantasy adventure in this New York Times-Bestselling graphic novel trilogy for middle grade readers.

Zita the Spacegirl has saved planets, battled monsters, and wrestled with interplanetary fame. But she...

Fairy Tale Comics: Classic Tales Told by Extraordinary Cartoonists

Author	Chris Duffy
ISBN	1596438231

From favorites like "Puss in Boots" and "Goldilocks" to obscure gems like "The Boy Who Drew Cats," Fairy Tale Comics has something to offer every reader. Seventeen fairy tales are wonderfully adapted and illustrated in comics format by seventeen different cartoonists, including Raina Telgemeier,...

The Adventures of Superhero Girl

Author	Faith Erin Hicks
ISBN	1616550848

What if you can leap tall buildings and defeat alien monsters with your bare hands, but you buy your capes at secondhand stores, and have a weakness for kittens, and a snarky comment from Skeptical Guy can ruin a whole afternoon? Cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks brings her skills in character design and sharp,...

Target Practice

Author	Mike Maihack
ISBN	0545528437

A funny, action-packed graphic novel featuring a young Cleopatra -- yes, THAT Cleopatra -- who's transported to the future and learns it's up to her to save the galaxy!

When a young Cleopatra (yes, THAT Cleopatra) finds a mysterious tablet that zaps her to the far, REALLY far future, she learns...

Hilda and the Bird Parade

Author	Luke Pearson
ISBN	1909263060

Getting used to life in the big city is proving difficult for Hilda. The diminutive explorer is still missing the enchanted valleys and magical friends that surrounded her home in the fjords. But tonight is somehow different; tonight is the night of the mysterious Bird Parade.

Finding herself...

Around the World

Author	Matt Phelan
ISBN	0763636193

A Scott O'Dell Award-winning graphic novelist follows three dauntless adventurers on a Jules Verne-inspired challenge: circling the world, solo!

As the nineteenth century wound down, a public inspired by the novel Around the World in Eighty Days clamored for intrepid adventure. The challenge...

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...

Odd Duck

Author	Cecil Castellucci
ISBN	1596435577

Theodora is a perfectly normal duck. She may swim with a teacup balanced on her head and stay north when the rest of the ducks fly south for the winter, but there's nothing so odd about that.  Chad, on the other hand, is one strange bird. Theodora quite likes him, but she can't overlook his odd habits. It's...

Monster on the Hill

Author	Rob Harrell
ISBN	1603090754

In a fantastical 1860s England, every quiet little township is terrorized by a ferocious monster--much to the townsfolk's delight! Each town's unique monster is a source of local pride, not to mention tourism.

Each town, that is...except for one.

Unfortunately, for the people...

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...