These Are Not Comic Books!

Illustrations have graced the pages of books throughout the decades. Yet the specific combination of sequential art and panel-by-panel dialogue has experienced something of a rough path to acceptance by the literature squad. For some, graphic novels will never rise above the status of comic books. For others, the exquisite blend of show and tell portrayed in graphic novels is a wonderfully fresh form of creative expression. For the latter, here are some graphic novels recently added to the Young Adult Collection.

YA Kerns
I Love Him to Pieces
My Boyfriend is a Monster, Book 1
St. Petersburg High school juniors Dicey Bell, a baseball star, and Jack Chen, who loves science and role-playing games, discover a mutual attraction when paired for a project, but on their first date, a zombie-producing fungus sends them on the run. 

YA Kim

Brain Camp: A Summer at Camp Fielding Will Really Change You

Lucas and Jenna are chosen to attend a camp that promises to turn delinquents into high achieving students, but when they arrive, they realize that the camp is not what it seems.

 

YA Jensen

Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer

After seeing Geppetto die at the hands of vampires, Pinocchio swears revenge in this darkly funny graphic novel. As the vampires plot the enslavement of mankind, only a one-puppet army stands in their way. But will a wooden boy and his endless supply of stakes - courtesy of plenty of lies and his elongating nose - be enough to save the day?

YA Tennapel

Ghostopolis

Imagine Garth Hale's surprise when he's accidentally zapped to the spirit world by Frank Gallows, a washed-out ghost wrangler. Alas, Garth finds he has powers, and he's stuck in a world run by the evil ruler of Ghostopolis, who would use Garth's abilities to rule the ghostly kingdom.

YA Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden.