Our Favorite Graphic Novels for Younger Readers

Bake Sale (Paperback)

$16.99
ISBN-13: 9781596434196
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Published: First Second, 8/2011

Bad Island (Paperback)

$10.99
ISBN-13: 9780545314800
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Published: GRAPHIX, 8/2011

$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780375846830
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Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 7/2009

$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780375865732
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Published: Random House Books for Young Readers, 9/2010

What do you do when a major disaster ruins all the books in the library? Sell cupcakes of course! This school fundraiser is a dream come true for Babymouse, but why is Felicia Furrypaws stealing the spotlight? Can Babymouse use her imagination to sell the most cupcakes? Can she win the GRAND PRIZE and save the library? Find out in this new graphic novel treat by brother-sister team Jennifer and Matthew Holm. Fans will surely take delight in yet another day in the life of Babymouse!

Reviewed by Amanda


$6.99
ISBN-13: 9780375857126
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Published: Random House Books for Young Readers, 8/2009

Babymouse is back! In her newest adventure she must face one of the scariest things in the whole wide world - MATH!!! After failing a Math test, Babymouse is forced to join the Fighting Fractions. The school's Mathlete team is on a grand quest to recover the golden slide rule, the most coveted prize in all of Math-dom. Could Babymouse be their savior? Unlikely. Babymouse may not be very good at Math, but she is an expert daydreamer. Her vivid imagination leads her on wild adventures filled with hysterical literary references. In the end, Babymouse's creativity just might save the day. Babymouse: Dragonslayer is as fun and silly as ever. Read it. Love it. But be careful, you just might laugh your pants off!

Reviewed by Lauren


$8.99
ISBN-13: 9781423113317
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Published: Hyperion, 9/2009

When I was 10, I had Problems, no really I did and Ms. Alexa Kitchen takes me back to the days when I thought having a little brother meant that I had to find room and board elsewhere (meaning a distant township in the Austrian Mountains). I remember my childhood room, the way it was kept (disheveled but neatly cluttered, at least to me) and how much I loved it that way - nobody knew how to find their way in it, only me. I recall the days when I found comfort in my schoolyard daydreams and passing notes littered with doodles and pink ink hearts. *Sigh* 10 was a good year, a year when a stuffy class room and clueless teacher was better handled by covering everything up with sparkly star and unicorns stickers... When nobody knew YOU better then Yourself, but still your mother nagged and brothers annoyed (No Offense). Ugh Grown-Ups Are Dumb! (no offense)

Reviewed by Penelope B.


$18.95
ISBN-13: 9780345496867
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Published: Villard, 3/2008

Be transported by David Petersen's art into the world of mice. Only the strength and determination of the Mouse Guard can hold together the fragile realm of the Mouse Territories versus predators, but will it be enough? Threat to the Mice comes from within as well. Follow Lieam, Saxon, and Kenzie as they try to protect the realm from forces that conspire against the Mouse Guard. David Petersen's Eisner Award winning graphic novel captures the natural setting and heroic quality of the story with stunning art. Mouseguard: Fall 1152 is a wonderful beginning to a series of which Petersen has promised more. Sure to grab fans of Brian Jaques' Redwall or Robert O'Brien's classic Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

Reviewed by Pete