10 Best graphic novels comics books like Baba Yaga's Assistant by Emily Carroll, Marika McCoola

Cover of Baba Yaga's Assistant by Emily Carroll, Marika McCoola

Baba Yaga's Assistant

By: Emily Carroll , Marika McCoola

3.88

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

ASSISTANT WANTED ASAP Must have skills in hauling, obeying orders, cooking, and cleaning. Magical …

"Naughty children have to be protected. Even if it's just from themselves."

-Emily Carroll, Baba Yaga's Assistant

If you liked the graphic novels comics plot in Baba Yaga's Assistant by Emily Carroll, Marika McCoola , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Fever Chart: Three Short Visions of the Middle East by Naomi Wallace

1. The Fever Chart: Three Short Visions of the Middle East

By: Naomi Wallace

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

"Naomi Wallace commits the unpardonable sin of being partisan, and, the darkness and harshness of h… read more

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2. Pandora

By: Henry James

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Paperback

Henry James (1843 - 1916) was one of the leaders in the school of realism in fiction. He is known f… read more

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  • fiction
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3. 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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  • fairy tales
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"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

Cover of Baba Yaga's Assistant by Emily Carroll, Marika McCoola

4. Baba Yaga's Assistant

By: Emily Carroll , Marika McCoola

3.88

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

ASSISTANT WANTED ASAP Must have skills in hauling, obeying orders, cooking, and cleaning. Magical … read more

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  • fairy tales
  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
"Naughty children have to be protected. Even if it's just from themselves."

-Emily Carroll, Baba Yaga's Assistant

5. The Witch Boy

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

3.26

Format: 32 pages,

In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to … read more

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6. Incognegro

By: Mat Johnson , Warren Pleece

4.48

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the early 20th century, when lynchings were commonplace in the American South, a few brave repor… read more

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7. Salt Magic

By: Hope Larson

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When a jealous witch curses her family's well, it's up to Vonceil to set things right in an epic jo… read more

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  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"...some wounds aren't easy to see."

-Hope Larson, Salt Magic

"I know you feel too big for this place. But when you get out of here, you'll see how small you are in the world."

-Hope Larson, Salt Magic

"Papa always says, you can fix soil, and you can build houses, but there's no point if the land don't have water."

-Hope Larson, Salt Magic

"No one stays young forever. And me? I lost my youth in the battlefield. If I have my way, I'll never leave this country again. Hell, I'll never leave the county. And if you think I'm the kind of man …"

-Hope Larson, Salt Magic

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8. Snapdragon

By: Kat Leyh

4.48

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Kat Leyh’s Snapdragon is a magical realist graphic novel about a young girl who befriends her town’… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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9. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

Cover of When I Arrived at the Castle by Emily Carroll

10. When I Arrived at the Castle

By: Emily Carroll

3.69

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood." Like many before her tha… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Okay Witch and the Hungry Shadow (The Okay Witch, #2) by Emma Steinkellner

11. The Okay Witch and the Hungry Shadow (The Okay Witch, #2)

By: Emma Steinkellner

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

“A satisfying, brilliant sequel, solidifying Steinkellner’s reputation as a graphic novelist to wat… read more

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  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
Cover of Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol

12. Plain Jane and the Mermaid

By: Vera Brosgol

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From Eisner Award winner Vera Brosgol comes an instant classic about courage, confidence, and inner… read more

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  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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13. The Accursed Vampire

By: Madeline McGrane

3.90

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In this spooky and funny middle grade graphic novel debut, a trio of vampire kids embarks on a ques… read more

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  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • comics
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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14. Séance Tea Party

By: Reimena Yee

4.25

Format: 272 pages, None

After watching her circle of friends seemingly fade away, Lora is determined to still have fun on h… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • fantasy
"To childhood, and growing up, and growing old, and magic – whatever age we are."

-Reimena Yee, Séance Tea Party

Cover of Witchlight by Jessi Zabarsky

15. Witchlight

By: Jessi Zabarsky

3.52

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Jessi Zabarsky's lushly illustrated shoujo-adventure comic that introduces Lelek the witch as she b… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
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16. Nothing's Mat

By: Erna Brodber

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Nothing’s Mat is told by a black British teenager – “every black girl” – for she has no name until … read more

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Cover of Beetle & the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne

17. Beetle & the Hollowbones

By: Aliza Layne

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An enchanting, riotous, and playfully illustrated debut graphic novel following a young goblin tryi… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1) by Emma Steinkellner

18. The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1)

By: Emma Steinkellner

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Magic is harder than it looks. Thirteen-year-old Moth Hush loves all things witchy. But she’s ab… read more

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  • childrens
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
"I was afraid once... And because I was afraid, my magic was weak and full of fear... If you do not trust in yourself, then you shall indeed fall. Trust in yourself, Moth. When you set your magic free…"

-Emma Steinkellner, The Okay Witch (The Okay Witch, #1)

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19. Slave Old Man

By: Patrick Chamoiseau

3.89

Format: 154 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most innovative and subversive novelists writing in French, a "writer of exceptiona… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Ojja-Wojja by Magdalene Visaggio

20. The Ojja-Wojja

By: Magdalene Visaggio

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The first in a new graphic novel series from indie comic stars Magdalene Visaggio and Jenn St-Onge … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Mapmakers and the Lost Magic by Cameron Chittock

21. Mapmakers and the Lost Magic

By: Cameron Chittock

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A young girl finds herself faced with an impossible choice--run away from her beloved valley, or un… read more

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  • childrens
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • fantasy

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Pandora

Henry James

4.12

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Through the Woods

Emily Carroll

3.94

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3.88

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Hope Larson

4.17

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Shawnelle Gibbs

4.13

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Kay O'Neill

4.08

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