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You'll enjoy these titles because: if you are a fan of Raina Telgemeier check out these realistic and vivid graphic novels about middle school

San Antonio Public Library

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  • As Astrid, about to begin junior high shes heads to summer roller derby camp while best friend Nicole goes to ballet camp. Can their friendship survive if they have different hobbies and interests? Friendship, loyalty, and teenage angst makes…
    Graphic Novel, 2015New York, NY : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015] — JUVENILE GRAPHIC NOVEL JAMIESON
  • Shannon Hale's somewhat biographic memoir about how hard it is to find your real friends. Reminiscent of Telegemeier's graphic novels that feature the hardships of navigating friendships and cliques while growing up.
    Graphic Novel, 2017New York : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, [2017] — JUVENILE GRAPHIC NOVEL HALE
  • This is the story of two totally different girls in one day. One is quiet, shy, artistic (Emmi) and the other (Katie) is popular, outgoing, athletic. Their lives intersect one day unexpectedly. See how this interaction brings out the drama of…
    Graphic Novel, 2017New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — JUVENILE GRAPHIC NOVEL LIBENSON
  • It's a summer of changes for 13 year-old Bina. It's her first summer without her best friend, Austin, who is off to soccer camp. Bina's oldest brother and his husband are adopting a baby, and nobody has time for her. What will her summer be like…
    Graphic Novel, 2018New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018. — JUVENILE GRAPHIC NOVEL LARSON
  • Penelope, shuns Jaime, the school nerd on the first day of middle school. Penelope tries to find her way in middle school with new friends in the art club. Then the art club goes to war with the science club (Jaime is a member of). It's awkward! …
    Graphic Novel, 2015New York : Yen Press, 2015. — JUVENILE GRAPHIC NOVEL CHMAKOVA
  • Sunny Lewin is sent to live with her grandfather for the summer in Florida. She finds friendship with Buzz, a boy obsessed with comics. She also find out the real reason why is was sent to Florida after all.
    Graphic Novel, 2015New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, September 2015. — JUVENILE GRAPHIC NOVEL HOLM
  • Seventh grader Jordan Banks enjoys drawing cartoons about his life. Instead of sending him to art school, his parents enroll him in private school know for it's academics. Jordan is one few kids of color in his grade. He is torn between two…
    Graphic Novel, 2019New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019] — JUVENILE GRNOVEL CRAFT
  • Olive "clicks" with everyone in the fifth grade. Then one day she doesn't. When a school talent show comes around no one asks Olive if the can be in their act. Of course Olive is starts to wonder why. For fans of Smile this one is for you.
    Graphic Novel, 2019Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2019] — JUVENILE GRAPHIC NOVEL MILLER