Auckland Council Libraries: Selected teen graphics

Selected teen graphics

​These librarian-selected teen graphics will grab your interest! Some stories are heart-warming and have deep messages, whereas some are just a little bit of fun to help you relax and unwind!

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This one summer

Mariko Tamaki

Graphic novel

Rose and her parents have been going to Awago Beach since she was a little girl. But this summer is different. Content warning: depression.

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Hey, kiddo

Jarrett Krosoczka

Graphic novel

In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. Content warning: addiction, abandonment.

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Pumpkinheads

Rainbow Rowell

Graphic novel

Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends. Every autumn, all through high school, they've worked together at the world's best pumpkin patch. They say good-bye every Halloween, and they're reunited every September 1.

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Laura Dean keeps breaking up with me

Mariko Tamaki

Graphic novel

Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl, but Freddy is learning she is not the best girlfriend. Content warning: unplanned pregnancy, abortion.

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Maus

Art Spiegelman

Graphic novel

By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival.

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Bloom

Kevin Panetta

Graphic novel

Baked with love! Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band - if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery.

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On a sunbeam

Tillie Walden

Graphic novel

In two interwoven timelines, a ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together; and two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love, only to learn the pain of loss.

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Check, please!. Book 1, #Hockey!

Ngozi Ukazu

Graphic novel

Eric Bittle may be a former junior figure skating champion, vlogger extraordinaire, and very talented amateur pâtissier, but being a freshman on the Samwell University hockey team is a whole new challenge.

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Kiss number 8

Colleen A. F. Venable

Graphic novel

Mads is pretty happy with her life. She goes to church with her family, and minor league baseball games with her dad. It's everything she hoped high school would be... until all of a sudden, it's not. Content warning: transphobia, homophobia.

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In real life

Cory Doctorow

Graphic novel

Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer.

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Anya's ghost

Vera Brosgol

Graphic novel

Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family, has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there may be worse. Content warning: death.

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American born Chinese

Gene Luen. Yang

Graphic novel

Read three alternating interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in popular culture.

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Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson

Graphic novel

Melinda is friendless - an outcast - because she busted a party by calling the cops. Through art, she is finally able to face what happened that night. Content warning: rape.

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Nimona

Noelle Stevenson

Graphic novel

Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. Content warnings: fantasy violence, death.

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Ms. Marvel. 1, No normal

G. Willow Wilson

Graphic novel

Kamala Khan is an ordinary girl from Jersey City - until she's suddenly empowered with extraordinary gifts. But who truly is the new Ms. Marvel? Teenager? Muslim? Inhuman?

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