The New York Four

Author

Ben Hatke

Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. But then, one day...

Author	Hope Larson
ISBN	0374304858

A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel about summer and friendships, written and illustrated by the Eisner Award–winning and New York Times–bestselling Hope Larson.
Thirteen-year-old Bina has a long summer ahead of her. She and her best friend, Austin, usually do everything together,...

Author	Laura Lee Gulledge
ISBN	0810997223

Everyone sees a quiet redhead who draws things. But when I close my eyes, I'm laughing and screaming and scheming and daydreaming. New city. New friends. New Paige?

When Paige's parents move her family from Virginia to New York City, Paige doesn't know where she fits in anymore. At first,...

Author

Mariko Tamaki

Emiko's summer looks like this: babysit all day, hang out with her own parents at home in the evening, rinse, repeat. It's pretty dull, but the babysitting gig pays well.

But then Emiko sees a charismatic artiste called Poppy at the mall, and Poppy personally invites her to the Freak Show, held...

Author	Mike Grell
ISBN	0930289382

A reading with edge!


This story was originally published as a 3-part miniseries in 1987. This TPB edition collects the whole of it.


Creative Team:

Writer & Illustrator: Mike Grell


ADAPTING V. EVOLVING

You’re wasting your time,...

Author	Andi Watson
ISBN	1401203701

A spoiled, rebellious London girl takes on the stuffy English countryside in Clubbing. The crime: getting caught with a fake I.D. at a posh London nightclub. The punishment: spending the summer at her Grandparent's stuffy country club. But Charlotte "Lottie" Brook, best known for her mile-high platforms,...

Author	Derek Kirk Kim
ISBN	1401213812

Just what the world needed: a comic where the whole message is that if you don't date the "nice guy" in high school, you'll end up alone forever and ever and wishing you'd just gone out with that nice boy who knew what your favorite muffin was and golly, he thought you were pretty!

In other words:...

Author	Alisa Kwitney
ISBN	1401215386

All she wants is a token of his affection.

It's 1987 and fifteen-year-old Shira Spektor lives with her father in a funky apartment building on Miami's South Beach. More comfortable wearing retro '40s clothing than the current fashions, Shira doesn't belong--which is why her best friend is...

Author	Cecil Castellucci
ISBN	1401213871

"This graphic novel for girls feels like a teen movie and teaches young women the joy of being original." -- USA Today on THE PLAIN JANES, Best Graphic Novels of 2007

The art attacks continue in this sequel to the acclaimed graphic novel THE PLAIN JANES. The coolest clique of misfits ever plays...

Author	Rebecca Donner
ISBN	1401215378

Face it: some people don't like pistachio nuts, and no one will ever convince them otherwise. However, those people who like pistachio nuts like them a WHOLE LOT.

That is to say that this book isn't for just anyone; you have to be able to enjoy sophisticated and spare storytelling style which...

Author	Barry Lyga
ISBN	0547423152

SHRRRRRRRIPPPPPPP.
Nighttime. Castleton.

It's dark and murky out when "the Rip" tears open the fabric of reality--and it's even darker when Ryoko Kiyama falls through it and into a strange and unusual world.

But Ryoko soon finds that he's the strange and unusual one.

This...

Author

Gabrielle Bell

A wry daily comics journal of urban ennui


Gabrielle Bell fascinatingly documents the mundane details of her below-minimum-wage, twentysomething existence in Brooklyn, New York, with a subtle humor. Her simple, unadorned drawing style, heavy narration, and biting wit chronicle...

Author	Kim Dwinell
ISBN	1603094113

Things are getting weird in Surfside. Lately, Samantha's best friend Jade explodes into fits of giggles whenever she sees a boy, and it's throwing a wrench into the kick-back summer of surfing and hanging out that Sam had planned. But after swimming through a secret underwater cave, Sam starts to......

Author	David Wiesner
ISBN	0544815122

Who is Fish Girl?
What is Fish Girl?

She lives in a tank in a boardwalk aquarium. She is the main attraction, though visitors never get more than a glimpse of her.

She has a tail. She can't walk. She can't speak.

But she can make friends with Livia, an ordinary girl, and yearn...

Author	Deborah Ellis
ISBN	1773061186

This beautiful graphic-novel adaptation of The Breadwinner animated film tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan.

Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building...

Author	Chynna Clugston Flores
ISBN	1929998171

Things start off bad as a costume party goes all wrong, and the brain-damaged, hormonally-challenged boys videotape Bleu in the bath. From there, Bleu and Clover will stop at nothing to get the tape back, while Erin makes it her personal mission to make sure everything stays screwed up! You see, this...

Author	Monica Gallagher
ISBN	1629918032

Sophia Campos is only just getting used to her new life with her divorced dad and managing their business of helping ghosts, when she meets a ghost girl who changes everything. Not because she’s a ghost - but because of what it brings out in Sophia.

Soon her brother, her best friend, her old crush...

Author

Thi Bui

Labor -- the life experience of many -- ends up being such an in your body/head thing…time goes out the window…it is wild. I have left this for too long without adding my review, but I recall connecting with this graphic memoir on that level -- the capturing of the in-your-headness that feels so isolating,...