The Golden Twine

Author	Nate Cosby
ISBN	1936393670

Justice ain't got no age..

Nate Cosby (Pigs, Jim Henson's The Storyteller) and Chris Eliopoulos (Franklin Richards, Misery Loves Sherman) present Cow Boy, the story of a young bounty hunter determined to send his entire outlaw family to jail. He travels the Old West on a horse that ain't his,...

Author	Luke Pearson
ISBN	1907704256

In Hilda and the Midnight Giant, our protagonist finds her world turned upside down as she faces the prospect of leaving her snow-capped birthplace for the hum of the megalopolis, where her mother (an architect) has been offered a prestigious job. During Hilda's daily one-and-a-half hour trek to school...

Author	Jorge Aguirre
ISBN	1596438789

Claudette is such a breath of fresh air. She is so much fun and her sidekicks happen to be the best sidekicks ever.

We start out with Claudette and Maria separated by Maria's parents as Claudette is such a bad influence on her. The city is attacked and Claudette's father goes out on his own to retrieve...

Author	Ryan Inzana
ISBN	0547252692

ICHIRO IS A BOY ADRIFT IN THIS WORLD.

Raised by his Japanese mother in New York City, his American father taken by war before Ichiro ever knew him, Ichiro finds it difficult to figure out where he fits in.

A trip to Japan leaves Ichiro with his grandfather, a stranger to him in a country...

Author	Chris A. Bolton
ISBN	0763655961

Super strong. Super fast. Super young!

Andrew Ryan dreams of having the strength and abilities of his superhero idol, Defender. Then he could stand up to his big brother, face down the school bully, and never be afraid of anything--or anyone--ever again.

KA-BOOM! When he is clobbered...

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...

Author	David Almond
ISBN	0763659126

The imagination of three children takes on unexpected life in a creation tale from the dream team of David Almond and Dave McKean.

The gods have created a world that is safe and calm and rather wonderful. They have built mountains, forests, and seas and filled the world with animals, people,...

Author	Nathan Hale
ISBN	1419721283

The aliens have arrived. And they’re hungry for electricity. In the Earth of the future, humans are on the run from an alien force — giant blobs who suck up electrical devices wherever they can find them. Strata and her family are part of a caravan of digital rescuers, hoping to keep the memory of civilization...

Author	Scott Chantler
ISBN	1554534143

As an acrobat in a traveling circus, 14-year-old orphan Dessa Redd flies through the air with ease. Still, she is weighed down by troubling memories. But when her ragtag circus troupe pulls into the city of Kingsbridge, Dessa feels a tickle of hope. Maybe here in the royal city she will finally find her...

Author	Mark Siegel
ISBN	1101935863

The Five Worlds are on the brink of extinction unless five ancient and mysterious beacons are lit. When war erupts, three unlikely heroes will discover there's more to themselves and more to their worlds than meets the eye. . .

The clumsiest student at the Sand Dancer Academy, Oona Lee is a fighter...

Author	J. Torres
ISBN	1554537118

Bored while visiting his grandmother for the weekend, Rufus, an ordinary ten-year-old boy, ventures into the nearby woods after he spies his young neighbor Penny heading there. A city kid, Rufus quickly loses sight of Penny, but while making his way back to Grammy's, he's drawn to an unusual object...

Author	Dan Bar-el
ISBN	1554537525

This collection of graphic short stories written by Dan Bar-el contains three separate tales of strange and surprising events that all happen one Halloween night. In ?Broom with a View,? a girl's broom for her witch costume mistakenly gets switched with a broom belonging to a real witch. Featured in...

Author	Kazu Kibuishi
ISBN	0545098939

Copper is curious, Fred is fearful. And together boy and dog are off on a series of adventures through marvelous worlds, powered by Copper's limitless enthusiasm and imagination.
Each Copper and Fred story in this graphic novel collection is a complete vignette, filled with richly detailed settings...

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...

Author	Sean Patrick O’Reilly
ISBN	0980920418

3.5 stars - This is a graphic novel, loosely based on Romeo and Juliet. In a faraway land, two rivals compete at the annual fair. Dendrus the Grafter creates a mutant boy called Huxley who is regarded by many as a monster. Meanwhile, Wilhelm the Tinkerer creates a clockwork girl called Tesla with her own...

Author	Eric Colossal
ISBN	1419716581

On their mission to find only the most exotic ingredients for top-notch dishes, Rutabaga and his pet cooking pot, Pot, somehow manage to get themselves into a series of pickles. Amid the giant killer spiders, a desperate acting troupe, a nefarious thief, and a horde of toxic gubblins (nasty, goblin-like...

Author

Robert Kondo

Beyond the dam lies certain death—this is something every citizen of Sunrise Valley knows well. Yet, when a poisonous black tidal wave carries Pig, Fox, and Hippo over the dam and into the wastelands, they don’t find death. Instead they find bustling cities, each with their own dams. Pig can't help...

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...

Author	Ashley Spires
ISBN	1554537681

A NetGalley first reads
The author of this review received an advance copy for an honest review


A clever story for children, "Binky Takes Charge," follows the continuing adventures of Binky the Space cat (though I haven't read the others and apparently you don't need to have read the...