This One Summer
By: Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki
3.69
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, th…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Don't worry about any of this stuff, okay? It's all just adult junk that doesn't mean anything."-Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer
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1. Spinning
By: Tillie Walden
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Poignant and captivating, Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir, Spinning, ca… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
"I never ignored the fact that I was attracted to them. I had known I was gay since I was 5. Now I was almost 12. A teacher's aide had shown me how to hold your sleeve when you put your jacket on. I s…"-Tillie Walden, Spinning
2. In Real Life
By: Cory Doctorow , Jen Wang
3.81
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role-playing game where she spends most of … read more
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- teen
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"– Here, take this. It'll give you a boost. – You spent 90 gold on this?? – 90 gold is nothing when you're the baddest bitch in the virtual universe."-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life
"– I understand the world can be cruel place and there are people out there counting on naive kids like you to take advantage of. Don't just think because it's video games people can't get hurt."-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life
"Most of the people you see going to work today are LARPing (live-action role playing) an incredibly boring RPG (role-playing game) called "professionalism" that requires them to alter their vocabular…"-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life
"When I was an activist in the 1980s, ninety-eight percent of my time was spent stuffing envelopes and writing addresses on them. The remaining two percent was the time we spent figuring out what to p…"-Cory Doctorow, In Real Life
3. The Prince and the Dressmaker
By: Jen Wang
4.35
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
Paris, at the dawn of the modern age: Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride―or rather, his par… read more
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- fiction
- graphic novels
- comics
- young adult
"I'm a prince who likes dresses."-Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker
"This job won't love you back, you know."-Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker
"You're a secret, which means I'm a secret!"-Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker
"Don't work too hard. This job won't love you back, you know."-Jen Wang, The Prince and the Dressmaker
4. Smile (Smile, #1)
By: Raina Telgemeier
4.23
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, … read more
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- graphic novels comics
- coming of age
- graphic novels
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Why don't you bang it against the wall a few times? That way, when you stop banging, it'll hurt less!"-Raina Telgemeier, Smile (Smile, #1)
5. Anya's Ghost
By: Vera Brosgol
3.91
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "Forever" part. Of all t… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- young adult
- comics
- fiction
"You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside."-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost
"Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have."-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost
"I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles."-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost
"Oh, Anya! Let's have an intense spiritual relationship for no believable reason!"-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost
6. This One Summer
By: Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki
3.69
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, th… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Jillian Tamaki's This One Summer book and Jillian Tamaki's This One Summer
- teen
- graphic novels comics
- coming of age
- graphic novels
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- banned books
- comics
- fiction
- contemporary
"Don't worry about any of this stuff, okay? It's all just adult junk that doesn't mean anything."-Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer
7. Paper Girls, Vol. 1 (Paper Girls, #1)
By: Matthew Wilson , Brian K. Vaughan , Cliff Chiang
3.98
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the m… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- young adult
- comics
- fiction
8. Nimona
By: None
4.00
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically accl… read more
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- fiction
- graphic novels
- comics
- young adult
9. Blankets
By: Craig Thompson
None
Format: 582 pages, Paperback
Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creati… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- coming of age
- graphic novels
- young adult
- comics
- fiction
- contemporary
10. Through the Woods
By: Emily Carroll
3.94
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- young adult
- comics
- fiction
"you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... but the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once."-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
"Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to …"-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
"But the worst kind of monster was the BURROWING KIND. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from …"-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
"I married my love in the springtime, but by summer he'd locked me away. He'd murdered me dead by the autumn, & by winter I was naught but decay. It's cold where I am and so lonely, but in loneliness …"-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods
11. Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
By: Various , None , Shannon Watters , Kat Leyh , Grace Ellis , Carey Pietsch , Brooke A. Allen , Casey Nowak , Brooke Allen , None
3.28
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
FRIENDSHIP TO THE MAX! At Miss Qiunzilla Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's camp for hard-core … read more
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12. The Magic Fish
By: Trung Le Nguyen
4.51
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- young adult
- comics
- fiction
- contemporary
"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish
"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish
13. Sheets (Sheets, #1)
By: Brenna Thummler
3.84
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen year old in charge of the family laundry bu… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- young adult
- comics
- fiction
"patience is the thread of healing."-Brenna Thummler, Sheets (Sheets, #1)
14. Are You Listening?
By: Tillie Walden
3.83
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bea is on the run. And then, she runs into Lou. This chance encounter sends them on a journey th… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Everyone everything has potential for magic. You just gotta be standing somewhere in the world and in the body that lets you see it."-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?
"Mom. It's too hot out. Can't we skip today? We could walk twice tomorrow...' 'We have to, Lou. We have to move every day, even when we don't want to."-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?
"When something horrible happens, or something amazing...really, anything that's big, it makes you feel like mountains could shatter, or the sky could disappear...you know what I'm talking about? Well…"-Tillie Walden, Are You Listening?
15. Roaming
By: Jillian Tamaki
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- coming of age
- graphic novels
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
16. Mooncakes
By: Suzanne Walker
3.83
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
A story of love and demons, family and witchcraft. Nova Huang knows more about magic than your a… read more
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- fiction
- graphic novels
- comics
- young adult
17. On a Sunbeam
By: Tillie Walden
4.30
Format: 533 pages, Paperback
Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, pain… read more
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- fiction
- graphic novels
- comics
- young adult
"It's like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things."-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam
"I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know."-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam
18. The Girl from the Sea
By: Molly Knox Ostertag
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel about family, romance, and first lov… read more
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- graphic novels
- young adult
- comics
- fiction
- contemporary
"Sometimes plans must change, my love."-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
"*creepy ghost whispers* morgan... THAT'S IT SHE'S DEAD"-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
"Sometimes you have to let your life get messy. That's how you get to the good parts"-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
19. Bloom
By: Kevin Panetta
3.91
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- young adult
- comics
- fiction
- contemporary
"Jeez! Why is my family manhandling me at this wedding?"-Kevin Panetta, Bloom
"Maybe just...Don't try to be what you think you should be. Be what you love."-Kevin Panetta, Bloom
"Got 'em! Comfortable shoes! Oh my God. They're like pillows. I hate high heels."-Kevin Panetta, Bloom
"...what does he think is going to happen? An angel will just fall from the sky?"-Kevin Panetta, Bloom
20. Pumpkinheads
By: Rainbow Rowell
4.03
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
In Pumpkinheads author Rainbow Rowell and artist Faith Erin Hicks have teamed up to create this ten… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- comics
- fiction
- contemporary
"...I'm your friend. And friends don't let friends live small lives."-Rainbow Rowell, Pumpkinheads