Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula

10 best books like Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula (Andi Watson): Pumpkinheads, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, Kiss Number 8, Stargazing, Pilu of the Woods, Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics, Witches in Training, The Okay Witch, Sunny Side Down: A Collection of Tales of Mere Existence, Soupy Leaves Home

Pumpkinheads

Author

Rainbow Rowell

Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.

Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye...

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

Author

Mariko Tamaki

Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend.

Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her,...

Kiss Number 8

Author

Colleen A.F. Venable

Amanda can’t figure out what’s so exciting about kissing. It’s just a lot of teeth clanking, germ swapping, closing of eyes so you can’t see that godzilla-sized zit just inches from your own hormonal monstrosity. All of her seven kisses had been horrible in different ways, but nothing compared...

Stargazing

Author

Jen Wang

Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known.

When Moon’s family moves in next door to Christine’s, Moon goes from unlikely...

Pilu of the Woods

Author	Mai K. Nguyen
ISBN	1620105632

A heartwarming story of friendship, loss, and finding your way home from debut author/illustrator Mai K. Nguyen!

Willow loves the woods near her house. They’re calm and quiet, so different from her own turbulent emotions, which she keeps locked away. When her emotions get the better of...

Adventures in Cartooning: How to Turn Your Doodles Into Comics

Author	James Sturm
ISBN	1596433698

In this action-packed cartooning adventure, kids will have as much fun making comics as reading them!    Once upon a time . . . a princess tried to make a comic.  And with the help of a magical cartooning elf, she learned how – well enough to draw her way out of an encounter with a dangerous dragon,...

Witches in Training

Author	Sam Davies
ISBN	1684152887

In a world where magic is an ordinary part of daily life, two young apprentice veterinarians pursue their dreams of caring for supernatural creatures. 

Have you ever wondered where witches' cats go when they pull a claw? Or what you do with a pygmy phoenix with a case of bird flu? Nan and Clarion...

The Okay Witch

Author	Emma Steinkellner
ISBN	1534431454

Sabrina the Teenage Witch meets Roller Girl in this hilarious, one-of-a-kind graphic novel about a half-witch who has just discovered the truth about herself, her family, and her town and is doing her best to survive middle school now that she knows everything!

Magic is harder than it looks.
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Sunny Side Down: A Collection of Tales of Mere Existence

Author	Levni Yilmaz
ISBN	1416591184

Lev is just like any other young, urban sub-professional who sees the world through inch-thick goggles of self-consciousness. Armed only with insecurity, doubt, and a seemingly inadvisable tenacity, Lev trudges through his days furiously analyzing himself and the world around him, desperately...

Soupy Leaves Home

Author	Cecil Castellucci
ISBN	1616554312

Set in 1932, this is the story of two misfits with no place to call home, who build a relationship during a train hopping journey from the cold heartbreak of their eastern homes toward the sunny promise of California.

Pearl "Soupy" Plankette ran away from her abusive father, but has nowhere to...

Camp Midnight

Author	Steven T. Seagle
ISBN	1632155559

Ben 10 and Big Hero 6 creator Steven T. Seagle returns to comics with New Yorker Magazine cartoonist Jason Adam Katzenstein for a new graphic novel!

Reluctant Skye is accidentally sent to the wrong summer camp. Not wanting to please her "step monster," Skye is dead-set on not fitting in. That...

Dear Justice League

Author

Michael Northrop

The greatest heroes in the DC Comics universe, the Justice League, answer mail from their biggest fans--kids!--courtesy of Michael Northrop, New York Times bestselling author of TombQuest, and artist Gustavo Duarte.

Does Superman ever make mistakes? What was Wonder Woman's eleventh...

Sunny Rolls the Dice

Author	Jennifer L. Holm
ISBN	1338233157

Too cool for school . . . or the least groovy girl in the grade?

Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't...

Hicotea

Author	Lorena Alvarez Gomez
ISBN	1910620343

I had expected this to be a tale about environmental conservation, specifically wetlands. To some degree, it is, but that degree is small. This is more about the power of imagination and creation, the ability to bring life and passion into your projects, to grow something bigger than you. And also about...