Great Graphic Novels for Teens YALSA 2014
Top 10 Great Graphic Novels for Teens YALSA 2014
: This One Summer, The Woods, Vol. 1: The Arrow, Afterlife with Archie, Vol. 1: Escape from Riverdale, In Real Life, Beautiful Darkness, Quantum and Woody, Volume 1: The World's Worst Superhero Team, Kingsman: The Secret Service, 47 Ronin, Alex + Ada, Vol. 1, Strange Fruit, Volume I: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History
| Author | Mariko Tamaki |
| ISBN | 1626720940 |
Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, their refuge. Rosie's friend Windy is always there, too, like the little sister she never had. But this summer is different. Rose's mom and dad won't stop fighting, and when Rose and Windy seek a distraction...
The Woods, Vol. 1: The Arrow
| Author | James Tynion IV |
| ISBN | 1608864545 |
On October 16, 2013, 437 students, 52 teachers, and 24 additional staff from Bay Point Preparatory High School in suburban Milwaukee, WI vanished without a trace. Countless light years away, far outside the bounds of the charted universe, 513 people find themselves in the middle of an ancient, primordial...
Afterlife with Archie, Vol. 1: Escape from Riverdale
| Author | Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa |
| ISBN | 1619889080 |
This is how the end of the world begins... Archie and the gang go where they've never been before -- to the grave and back! A horrific accident sets off a series of grim events and Sabrina the Teenage Witch must try to repair the unspeakable evil her spell has unleashed. Gasp in horror as Riverdale faces an...
| Author | Cory Doctorow |
| ISBN | 1596436581 |
Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role-playing game where she spends most of her free time. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends.
But things become a lot more complicated...
| Author | Fabien Vehlmann |
| ISBN | 1770461299 |
Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann’s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. ...
Quantum and Woody, Volume 1: The World's Worst Superhero Team
| Author | James Asmus |
| ISBN | 1939346185 |
Those guys are the worst!
Once upon a time, Eric and Woody Henderson were inseparable. Adopted brothers. Best friends. Brilliant minds. Years later, they are estranged siblings, petty rivals, and washed-up failures. But when their father's murder leads them into the throes of a life-altering...
Kingsman: The Secret Service
| Author | Mark Millar |
| ISBN | 0785165452 |
From the writer of Kick-Ass and the artist of Watchmen comes a collaboration decades in the making! The world's greatest secret agent is on the most exciting case of his career. But will the end of the world as know it take a back seat to training his street-punk nephew to be the next James Bond? meanwhile,...
| Author | Mike Richardson |
| ISBN | 1595829547 |
Japan’s enduring national legend comes to comics! The tale of the 47 Ronin and their epic mission to avenge their wronged master epitomizes the samurai code of honor, and creators Mike Richardson and Stan Sakai have done justice to their story! Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated,...
| Author | Jonathan Luna |
| ISBN | 1632150069 |
Awwww. I'm all aflutter with feelings!
I wasn't exactly expecting to feel that way when I found out this was about sentient AI, you know? Most of the time, these stories just terrify me!
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Whatever. This made me feel kinda warm...
| Author | Joel Christian Gill |
| ISBN | 1938486293 |
Strange Fruit, Volume I is a collection of stories from African American history that exemplifies success in the face of great adversity. This unique graphic anthology offers historical and cultural commentary on nine uncelebrated heroes whose stories are not often found in history books. Among...
What if the dumbest idea ever turned your life upside down?
At thirteen, Jimmy was popular, at the top of his class, and the leading scorer on his basketball team. But all that changed when chicken pox forced him to miss the championship game. Things went from bad to worse when he got pneumonia...
| Author | Chris Duffy |
| ISBN | 1626720657 |
As the Great War dragged on and its catastrophic death toll mounted, a new artistic movement found its feet in the United Kingdom. The Trench Poets, as they came to be called, were soldier-poets dispatching their verse from the front lines. Known for its rejection of war as a romantic or noble enterprise,...
| Author | Vivek J. Tiwary |
| ISBN | 1616552565 |
The Fifth Beatle is the untold true story of Brian Epstein, the visionary manager who discovered and guided The Beatles from their gigs in a tiny cellar in Liverpool to unprecedented international stardom. Yet more than merely the story of "The Man Who Made The Beatles," The Fifth Beatle is an uplifting,...
| Author | Reinhard Kleist |
| ISBN | 1906838771 |
Poland, 1941. Sixteen-year-old Harry Haft is sent to Auschwitz. When he is forced to fight against other inmates for the amusement of the SS officers, Haft shows extraordinary strength and courage, and a determination to survive. As the Soviet Army advances in April 1945, he makes a daring escape from...
| Author | Paul Tobin |
| ISBN | 1616552794 |
She is ALLURING
She is MYSTERIOUS
She is BANDETTE!
The world's greatest thief is a costumed teen burglar by the nome d'arte of Bandette! Gleefully plying her skills on either side of the law alongside her network of street urchins, Bandette is a thorn in the side of both Police...
| Author | Scott Chantler |
| ISBN | 1554537789 |
With Dessa's leg broken and the Queen's Dragons in hot pursuit, the odds are stacked against the three thieves.
Believing he has Dessa, Topper and Fisk cornered in a remote monastery, Captain Drake recalls his early days as a knight in the service of King Roderick. The idealistic young Drake...
| Author | Tom Waltz |
| ISBN | 1613777833 |
TMNT tries to regain its footing after the outrageously bad Krang War by stumbling through every comic trope out there first. Every scene in this book can be seen from a mile away, with an absurd story reliant on supplemental material. Most of it isn't completely terrible, settling for obvious and mediocre,...
| Author | Steve Niles |
| ISBN | 1616553448 |
Reprinting the 3-issue Dark Horse mini-series that is loosely based on the legends of the Golem of Prague.
During the events of WWII, an allied plane crashes near a village populated predominately with Jewish citizens. This spawns an investigation by Nazi forces to find the pilot. The villagers...
| Author | Danica Novgorodoff |
| ISBN | 1596435860 |
In the mountains of Northern China ancient custom demands that every man have a wife to keep him company in the afterlife.
Deshi Li's brother is dead—and unmarried. Which means that Deshi must find him an eligible body before the week is up.
Lily Chen, sweet as a snakebite, needs money...
| Author | Ananth Panagariya |
| ISBN | 1620100886 |
Webster is a bundle of nerves headed into his first day of high school, but whatever academic and social horrors he feared are nothing compared to what's in store for him as he stumbles into an unsanctioned, street-level spelling bee! And this ain't no staged production, either - letters fly like jump...
| Author | Andrew Rae |
| ISBN | 1907704787 |
Life's a peach when you've got a moon for a head and your head's in space. You can wander out of the Earth's atmosphere on intergalactic daydreams, drift blissfully across star-speckled skies and fly close to the Sun, like a fireproof Icarus.
Snap! Back to reality—having a moon for a head at...
| Author | Nathan Hale |
| ISBN | 1419708082 |
World War I set the tone for the 20th century and introduced a new type of warfare: global, mechanical, and brutal. Nathan Hale has gathered some of the most fascinating true-life tales from the war and given them his inimitable Hazardous Tales twist. Easy to understand, funny, informative, and lively,...
