The Secret of the Stone Frog
10 best books like The Secret of the Stone Frog (David Nytra): Amelia Rules! Volume 1: The Whole World's Crazy, Mighty Jack and the Goblin King, Jellaby, The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook, The Stonekeeper, All's Faire in Middle School, Bone, Vol. 8: Treasure Hunters, Cardboard, Owly, Vol. 3: Flying Lessons, The Storm in the Barn
| Author | Jimmy Gownley |
| ISBN | 0971216924 |
Meet Amelia Louise McBride. She's nine years old, a former New Yorker who's now living in a small town after her parents decided to get divorced, and dealing with everything from being the new kid in school to getting her first kiss. But you know what? She's got her mom and her aunt Tanner (who happens to...
| Author | Ben Hatke |
| ISBN | 1626722668 |
Like a bolt from the blue, Jack's little sister Maddy is gone — carried into another realm by an ogre.
When Jack and Lilly follow Maddy’s captor through the portal, they are ready for anything... except what they find waiting for them in the floating crossroads between worlds. Even the power...
| Author | Kean Soo |
| ISBN | 1423103033 |
Quiet, brilliant Portia has just moved to a new neighborhood with her mom. Adjusting to life without a father is hard enough, but school is boring and her classmates are standoffish -- and even Portia's mom is strangely distant. But things start looking up when Portia mounts a late-night excursion into...
| Author | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1599903962 |
Super-smart Julian Calendar thinks starting junior high at a new school will mean he can shed his nerdy image-but then he meets Ben and Greta, two secret scientists like himself! The three form a secret club, complete with a high-tech lair. There, they can work to their hearts content on projects like...
| Author | Kazu Kibuishi |
| ISBN | 0439846803 |
Graphic novel star Kazu Kibuishi creates a world of terrible, man-eating demons, a mechanical rabbit, a giant robot---and two ordinary children on a life-or-death mission.
After the tragic death of their father, Emily and Navin move with their mother to the home of her deceased great-grandfather,...
| Author | Victoria Jamieson |
| ISBN | 0525429980 |
The author of Roller Girl is back with a graphic novel about starting middle school, surviving your embarrassing family, and the Renaissance Faire.
Eleven-year-old Imogene (Impy) has grown up with two parents working at the Renaissance Faire, and she's eager to begin her own training as...
| Author | Jeff Smith |
| ISBN | 1888963131 |
This series of books is probably one of my favorite graphic novels. I have read most of them. This is the first time I read this one, but It was really good. It is so action-packed in this book. There are good people, bad people, and good and bad animals. This book was about Bone and his friends all trying to...
| Author | Doug TenNapel |
| ISBN | 0545418739 |
Every page in Doug TenNapel’s Cardboard pops to life with color, action, imagination, and heart!
Cam and his Dad are going through a rough time. Both trying to find a way to live without Cam’s mother. Loneliness, grief, and fear show up throughout the story in heartbreaking quiet ways...
| Author | Andy Runton |
| ISBN | 1891830767 |
Owly is a kind-hearted little owl who knows what it means to be human.
The third graphic novel in the breakout, all-ages series is a charming story of understanding and acceptance, where Owly learns that everyone is special and it's okay to be different.
Relying on a mixture of symbols...
| Author | Matt Phelan |
| ISBN | 0763636185 |
Tall tale. Thriller. Gripping historical fiction. This artful, sparely told graphic novel — a tale of a boy in Dust Bowl America — will resonate with young readers today.
In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark faces his share of ordinary challenges: local bullies, 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 | 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 | Royden Lepp |
| ISBN | 1936393271 |
Rust is a high-octane adventure set in the prairie lands of an unknown time. Life on the Taylor family farm was difficult enough before Jet Jones crashes into the barn, chased by a giant decommissioned war robot! Oldest son Roman Taylor struggles to keep his family’s small farm afloat as the area heals...
| Author | Zack Giallongo |
| ISBN | 1596435518 |
Can two young warriors defeat the walking dead?
Princess Zora of the Granitewings has traveled far to seek the reclusive Peryton Clan. But Peryton Peak is abandoned, and there's no sign of the civilization that once inhabited it.
No sign...but for a young warrior with no clan and no...
The Cosmic Collector is the second volume in the critically acclaimed, all-ages graphic novel series, Korgi. In this volume, things are not going too well in Korgi Hollow. While a mysterious hunter has trapped and clipped the wings off of many mollies, Ivy and Sprout search for answers in the surrounding...
| 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...
