Water Baby

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	Hope Larson
ISBN	1416935843

Abby is back at the same old camp she goes to every summer -- except for the fact that this summer, nothing is the same. Her friend Rose is a cabin assistant, her friend Beth is pierced, and now the only person who doesn't seem too cool for Abby is Shasta, the new girl. Shasta:

1. who is one-eighth Cherokee.

2....

Author	Deborah Noyes
ISBN	0763630004

In an enthralling work of Gothic suspense, an Edith Wharton story inspires five connected tales set in the same haunted manor over the centuries.

In her classic ghost story "Kerfol," Edith Wharton tells the tale of Anne de Barrigan, a young Frenchwoman convicted of murdering her husband,...

Author	C. Spike Trotman
ISBN	0979408067

Indie comics' most sex-positive, lady-friendly, dirty little mini is back as a FULL-SIZED ANTHOLOGY!

Smut Peddler began life in 2003 as a digest-sized mini-comic, published by Saucy Goose Press. It was an anthology of erotic comics, with contributions from some of the best and the brightest...

Author

Beth Kanell

This gripping, ultimately hopeful tale of an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont explores a dark episode in New England history.

Just as the waters of a river roar through her town, Molly Ballou's life is riding on a swift current, where change comes faster than a spring flood. As...

Author	Steve Watkins
ISBN	0763638390

In a tale full of humor and poignancy, a sheltered twelve-year-old boy comes of age in a small Florida mining town amid the changing mores of the 1960s.

It's 1966 and Dewey Turner is determined to start the school year right. No more being the brunt of every joke. No more "Deweyitis." But after...

Author	Aaron Alexovich
ISBN	1401203736

Written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich Navigate the neon-lit corridors of an online VR lair in this high-velocity, dangerous quest to locate the world's first digital girl, written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich (Serenity Rose, TV's Invader Zim and Avatar: The Last Airbender)! Telly Kade...

Author	Megan Kelso
ISBN	1560977469

Kelso's work is characterized by subject matter that fits roughly into two disparate camps: personal and semi-autobiographical stories that draw heavily on the details of her childhood and adolescence, and stories about the idea of America and American history, such as a trilogy of short pieces...

Author	Don Wood
ISBN	0439726719

Caldecott Honor Illustrator and international bestseller Don Wood creates his first full-color graphic novel, filled with action, drama, and adventure.
Sumno and Duffy pugg (brothers) are told they must travel to a volcanic island to help an aunt they have never met. When they arrive on the island,...

Author	Beth Ain
ISBN	0763633968

In 1776 Paris, a feisty teenager defies her mother, her closest friend, and the aristocracy that rules her life in a compelling romantic novel of social intrigue.

Sixteen-year-old Sabine Durand, daughter of aristocrats, thinks of nothing but donning exquisite ball gowns and being seen...

Author	Donna Freitas
ISBN	0374360871

Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Unfortunately, the two events Antonia’s prayed for seem equally unlikely to happen...

Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she’s still...

Author	A.M. Jenkins
ISBN	0064473740

Colt's perfect life crumbles when his girlfriend breaks up with him and looming academic ineligibility threatens his baseball career. For a guy who gets by on his good looks and talent with a bat, Colt knows that he could be facing his toughest challenge ever.

Just as she did in her acclaimed...

Author	Michael Simmons
ISBN	0385731965

Brett Gerson is a 15-year-old spoiled-rotton rich kid; he spends his days lounging by the pool, playing videogames on his big-screen tv, and basically doing anything he wants. One day there is a knock on the door and everything changes, Brett’s father is arrested for insider trading. Brett’s family...

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	Mike Carey
ISBN	1401211488

This is a graphic novel/comic about a young teen blogger called Tasha, who is the creator of Blabbermouth, a blog which is read by hundreds of readers online. On her blog, she stats her honest thoughts on just about anything. When her Mum gets a new boyfriend, Tasha isn't so sure that he's all good news and...

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	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	Brian Wood
ISBN	1401211542

For the sake of a second star, I'm going to assume that New York Four was intended to be a multi-volume series, and that the characters were left hanging because DC Comics' Minx line closed, and not because the author and artist intended them to be stuck in plotline limbo forever. This was a short graphic...

Author	Mike Dawson
ISBN	1596914769

High Fidelity meets Wayne’s World in this utterly charming graphic memoir about a young man’s life-long obsession with the rock band Queen.
All of us have had that one band with which we identify, the band that was always there for us during good times and bad. For Mike Dawson it's...

Author	Faith Erin Hicks
ISBN	1593620799

"Survival is usually ambiguous in a zombie movie, but we have the rules to protect us. We will survive."

Joss' life sucks. She's in the middle of university exams and student loan debt when she'd much rather be watching the zombie movies she loves. So it's no surprise that when she tells her roommates...

Author	Jordan Crane
ISBN	1560976276

A kind of retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk where the beanstalk is a talking cat. Jack skips school to climb a ladder to the clouds, and then gets dumped back in his classroom by a bunch of annoyed birds. I wasn't acquainted with Jordan Crane's work but I got this from the library because 1) Fantagraphics...

Author	Ross Campbell
ISBN	1593621892

In the futuristic, dystopian city of Dranac, moody teenager Scout Montana is an aspiring vigilante, but her first attempt to beat up a mugger is halted when she's hit in the head with a brick and knocked unconscious. When she awakens, she discovers that she's able to transform into a strange, blue, clawed,...

Author	Fabian Nicieza
ISBN	1593070128

WrensReads Review:

This was weird.

The only reason I am giving it any type of star is because it shows the stages of what kids go through when their parents get a divorce. Buffy and Dawn are under some serious stress when their mother and father tell them they are going to "separate," even...

Author	Steven T. Seagle
ISBN	1401213014

Adam is under so much stress after losing Cassie that he sees her spirit during her funeral. A bit of coffin humping later and Adam is his old, blindly faithful self again. The amount of praise for God and the Bible soon becomes boring AF. Worse, I don't feel anything for any character because they barely...