The Adventures of Superhero Girl
10 best books like The Adventures of Superhero Girl (Faith Erin Hicks): Through the Woods, This One Summer, SuperMutant Magic Academy, Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong, Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir, Brain Camp, Bandette, Volume 1: Presto!, Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant, Saints, How Mirka Met a Meteorite
Author | Emily Carroll |
ISBN | 1442465956 |
This book freaked my shit out.
Yeah. How's that for a blurb?
"This freaked my shit out."
- Patrick Rothfuss
The truth is, this book is amazing. I've read a lot of great comics this last year, and out of all of them, this is the one that had the most profound emotional effect...
Author | Mariko Tamaki |
ISBN | 1626720940 |
Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, their refuge. Rosie's friend Windy is always there, too, 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...
SuperMutant Magic Academy
Author | Jillian Tamaki |
ISBN | 1770461981 |
Unrequited love, underage drinking, and teen angst rule at a high school for mutants and witches.
The New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Jillian Tamaki is best known for co-creating the award-winning young adult graphic novels Skim and This One Summer—moody and atmospheric bestsellers....
Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong
Charlie is the laid-back captain of the basketball team. Nate is the neurotic, scheming president of the robotics club. Their unlikely friendship nearly bites the dust when Nate declares war on the cheerleaders and the cheerleaders retaliate by making Charlie their figurehead in the ugliest class...
Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir
All-girl camp. First love. First heartbreak. At once romantic and devastating, brutally honest and full of humor, this graphic-novel memoir is a debut of the rarest sort.
Maggie Thrash has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower...
Author | Susan Kim |
ISBN | 1596433663 |
Neither artistic, dreamy Jenna nor surly, delinquent Lucas expected to find themselves at an invitation-only summer camp that turns problem children into prodigies. And yet, here they both are at Camp Fielding, settling in with all the other losers and misfits who've been shipped off by their parents...
Author | Paul Tobin |
ISBN | 1616552794 |
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 alongside her network of street urchins, Bandette is a thorn in the side of both Police...
Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant
Author | Tony Cliff |
ISBN | 1596438134 |
Lovable ne'er-do-well Delilah Dirk has travelled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and even the New World. Using the skills she's picked up on the way, Delilah's adventures continue as she plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in Constantinople. With the aid of her flying boat and her newfound friend, Selim,...
Author | Gene Luen Yang |
ISBN | 1596436891 |
China, 1898. An unwanted and unwelcome fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family when she's born. She finds friendship--and a name, Vibiana--in the most unlikely of places: Christianity.
But China is a dangerous place for Christians. The Boxer Rebellion is...
Author | Barry Deutsch |
ISBN | 1419703986 |
The last time I read a comic book, uh, I mean
graphic novel
(in sophisticated fonts) was ages ago when they were still simply called comic books. I almost forgot how enjoyable they were until this cute book. It’s a witty, charming and really funny middle school story about Mirka, an 11 year old...
Author | Kate Beaton |
ISBN | 1770462082 |
The sequel to the hit comic collection Hark! a Vagrant, which appeared on best of lists from Time, NPR and USA Today; spent five months on the New York Times bestseller list; and won Harvey, Ignatz, and Doug Wright awards.
Cartoonist Kate Beaton returns with all-new sidesplitting comics that...
Author | Jim Ottaviani |
ISBN | 1596438657 |
Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last century: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas. These three ground-breaking researchers were all students of the great Louis Leakey, and each made profound contributions to primatology—and...
Author | René Goscinny |
ISBN | 2205040553 |
Iznogoud!
Iznochi?
Iznogoud!
"Voglio diventare califfo al posto del califfo"
leggerete spesso questa frase.
Direttamente dagli anni '60 per voi, una lezione di fumetto umoristico,
una serie di calembour e disavventure che vi accompagneranno tra risate e
sorrisi...
Author | Laura Lee Gulledge |
ISBN | 1419705466 |
Wilhelmina “Will” Huckstep is a creative soul struggling to come to terms with a family tragedy. She crafts whimsical lamps, in part to deal with her fear of the dark. As she wraps up another summer in her mountain town, she longs for unplugged adventures with her fellow creative friends, Autumn,...
Batman: La Leyenda - Año Cero, Parte 1
Cinco años después de su desaparición, Bruce Wayne ha vuelto a Gotham City decidido a librar una guerra secreta contra el crimen. La ciudad está a merced de la implacable Banda de Capuchas Rojas, cuyos miembros en muchos casos han sido chantajeados por el misterioso Número Uno de la organización...