The Girl Who Owned a City: The Graphic Novel
10 best books like The Girl Who Owned a City: The Graphic Novel (O.T. Nelson): Pumpkinheads, Friends With Boys, How Mirka Met a Meteorite, I Love Him to Pieces, Blue Bloods: The Graphic Novel, Curses! Foiled Again, Earthling!, The City of Ember: The Graphic Novel, Space Boy Volume 1, Skyward, Vol. 2: Here There Be Dragonflies
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...
| Author | Faith Erin Hicks |
| ISBN | 1596435569 |
After years of homeschooling, Maggie is starting high school. It's pretty terrifying.
Maggie's big brothers are there to watch her back, but ever since Mom left it just hasn't been the same.
Besides her brothers, Maggie's never had any real friends before. Lucy and Alistair don't...
| 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 | Evonne Tsang |
| ISBN | 0761360042 |
Can love survive the zombie apocalypse? Maybe Dicey's first chance at a real relationship was dead from the start. She's the star of her high school baseball team, and Jack's the star of the science program. Her idea of a study session includes sleeping in the sun, and his idea of a good game involves dungeons...
For this elite group of teenagers, New York is all about parties, fashion...AND BLOOD.
Schuyler Van Alen is a loner, and happy that way. But when she turns fifteen, her life dramatically changes. A mosaic of blue veins appears on her arms, and she begins to have memories of another time and place....
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 1596436190 |
I enjoy this series. Sadly, Jane said in a fan question that First Second did not want to do another book, so Jane is not going to finish this series. The first book was better, but I enjoy this sword or weapon welding girl. I like how this ties into the other world of fairies. Baba Yaga shows up and her tea cup,...
| Author | Mark Fearing |
| ISBN | 0811871061 |
Every kid worries about making friends at a new school, but when nine-year-old Bud accidentally catches the wrong bus and finds himself launched into deep space, new friends are the least of his problems! At Cosmos Academy, Bud learns that Earthlings are the most feared creatures in the galaxy, and...
| Author | Jeanne DuPrau |
| ISBN | 0375968210 |
In the spring 2003, kids, parents, teachers, librarians—whole communities—discovered and fell in love with Jeanne DuPrau's story about a doomed city, and the two children who found a way out. Nearly 10 years later, that story, The City of Ember, is a bona fide classic, with over 1.7 million copies...
| Author | Stephen McCranie |
| ISBN | 1506706487 |
A sci-fi drama of a high school aged girl who belongs in a different time, a boy possessed by emptiness as deep as space, an alien artifact, mysterious murder, and a love that crosses light years.
To Amy, everyone has a flavor. Her mom is the flavor of mint--sharp and bright. Her dad is like hot chocolate--sweet...
Skyward, Vol. 2: Here There Be Dragonflies
| Author | Joe Henderson |
| ISBN | 1534308814 |
Now a fugitive, Willa leaves Chicago and goes on the run! But when she takes refuge with some low-G farmers, she stumbles into a plot to attack the city. Oh, and on top of all that: giant, man-eating bugs! Maybe we should have led with that.
SKYWARD VOL. 2 collects issues 6-10 of the hit ongoing series...
Wild's End, Vol. 1: First Light
| Author | Dan Abnett |
| ISBN | 1608867358 |
Welcome to the War of the Wilds. Lower Crowchurch is a small English community enjoying the peace of the 1930s, but when the town becomes the victim of an alien invasion, the residents' lives are upended by the harsh realities of life-and-death violence. Led by the town's outsider and retired war veteran,...
| Author | Mark Siegel |
| ISBN | 1101935928 |
In book 3, Oona Lee is determined to light Moon Yatta's beacon and continue her quest to save the galaxy. But reaching the red beacon means navigating an impossible maze of pipes and facing devious enemies at every turn. Luckily, her friend Jax Amboy has returned from his adventures transformed! Now...
