Waking the Monsters

10 best books like Waking the Monsters (Judd Winick): Mighty Jack and the Goblin King, The Cardboard Kingdom, All's Faire in Middle School, The Stone Heart, Dragons Beware!, Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths, Written and Drawn by Henrietta, The League of Lasers, One Trick Pony, The Sand Warrior

Mighty Jack and the Goblin King

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...

The Cardboard Kingdom

Author	Chad Sell
ISBN	1524719374

Welcome to a neighborhood of kids who transform ordinary boxes into colorful costumes, and their ordinary block into cardboard kingdom. This is the summer when sixteen kids encounter knights and rogues, robots and monsters--and their own inner demons--on one last quest before school starts again.

In...

All's Faire in Middle School

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...

The Stone Heart

Author	Faith Erin Hicks
ISBN	1626721599

Kaidu and Rat have only just recovered from the assassination attempt on the General of All Blades when more chaos breaks loose in the Nameless City: deep conflicts within the Dao nation are making it impossible to find a political solution for the disputed territory of the City itself.

To complicate...

Dragons Beware!

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...

Peter & Ernesto: A Tale of Two Sloths

Author	Graham Annable
ISBN	1626725616

Peter and Ernesto are sloths. Peter and Ernesto are friends. But Peter and Ernesto are nothing alike. Peter loves their tree and never wants to leave, while Ernesto loves the sky and wants to see it from every place on Earth. When Ernesto leaves to have a grand adventure, Peter stays behind and frets. The...

Written and Drawn by Henrietta

Author

Liniers

A Junior Library Guild Selection.

Reading books is fun . . . but what about making them? Armed with new colored pencils, Henrietta's ready to try. Peek over her shoulder as she draws the story of a brave young girl, a three-headed monster, and an impossibly wide world of adventure. Whether read...

The League of Lasers

Author	Mike Lawrence
ISBN	1626722811

Avani has found the one place in the universe where she fits in: Star Scouts. The League of Lasers is the second volume of this action-packed graphic novel series by Mike Lawrence.

During a troop meeting, a robot messenger delivers Avani some exciting news: she has been invited to join a secret...

One Trick Pony

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...

The Sand Warrior

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...

The Creepy Case Files of Margo Maloo

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...

New Shoes

Author	Sara Varon
ISBN	1596439203

From Sara Varon (Robot Dreams, Bake Sale) comes New Shoes, a heartwarming graphic novel about a donkey on a quest to make the perfect pair of shoes.

Francis the donkey is the best shoemaker in the village. He uses only the finest materials: coconut wood for the soles, goat’s wool for the insoles,...

Red's Planet

Author	Eddie Pittman
ISBN	1419719076

Red, a quirky, headstrong 10-year-old, longs to live in her own perfect paradise far away from her annoying foster family. But when a UFO mistakenly kidnaps her, Red finds herself farther away than she could have possibly imagined—across the galaxy and aboard an enormous spaceship owned by the Aquilari,...

The Dark Island

Author	Scott Chantler
ISBN	1894786564

In this thrilling sixth installment of Scott Chantler's popular Three Thieves graphic novel series, the separate adventures of twins Dessa and Jared play out simultaneously and seem poised to intersect as the book ends. Dessa, along with Topper and Fisk, has managed a daring landing onto the flying...

Sanity & Tallulah

Author	Molly Brooks
ISBN	1368008445

Sanity Jones and Tallulah Vega are best friends on Wilnick, the dilapidated space station they call home at the end of the galaxy. So naturally, when gifted scientist Sanity uses her lab skills and energy allowance to create a definitely-illegal-but-impossibly-cute three-headed kitten, she has...

Gronk Volume 1

Author

Katie Cook

Gronk is a monster... and not a very good one.

Gronk tells the tale of a young monster who has turned her back on monsterdom (mostly because no one found her scary) and has become fascinated with humans.

She moves in with her human friend Dale and her pets Kitty and Harli, a 160 lb. Newfoundland...

Curse of the Harvester

Author	Greg Grunberg
ISBN	0545826071

Ben and Jake are back for more! With the Dream Jumper business making them some serious money, all seems to be going great. But Ben is put to the test in a way he never saw coming when a new and formidable foe invades his nightmares. With Jake backing him up and a mysterious newcomer in the Dream World, Ben may...

CatStronauts: Robot Rescue

Author	Drew Brockington
ISBN	0316307599

In the fourth book in the CatStronauts graphic novel series, the stalwart Cat-Stro-Bot is stranded, and the CatStronauts have to stage an off the books robot rescue!

Cat-Stro-Bot has been with the CatStronauts through it all. But now he's stranded on Jupiter's coldest moon after a mission...

Paths & Portals

Author	Gene Luen Yang
ISBN	1626723400

Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

There's something lurking beneath the surface of Stately Academy—literally. In a secret underground classroom Hopper, Eni, and Josh discover that the campus was once home to the Bee School, an institute where teachers,...

Phoebe and Her Unicorn in the Magic Storm

Author	Dana Simpson
ISBN	1449483593

The first Phoebe and Her Unicorn graphic novel!

Phoebe and Marigold decide to investigate a powerful storm that is wreaking havoc with the electricity in their town. The adults think it’s just winter weather, but Phoebe and Marigold soon discover that all is not what it seems to be, and...