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Here are our favorite manga and graphic novels for teens in high school! These titles can be found in the Teen Graphic Novel section of the library, unless otherwise noted.
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Angelica and the Bear Prince
by Trung Le Nguyen
A young girl falls in love with the bear mascot of her local community theater, and learns to make space for herself while recovering from burn out.
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Cat + Crazy: Volume 1
by Wataru Nadatani
Highschooler Kensuke Fuji meets a local cat whisperer, and decides to learn the ways of cats!
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Ghost Roast
by Shawneé Gibbs
When a night out with the popular crowd ends in disaster, high school student Chelsea Grant is forced to work for her dad at Paranormal Removal Services - where she discovers she can actually see ghosts and tries to keep it a secret.
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Lunar New Year Love Story
by Gene Luen Yang
High school senior Valentina adored Valentine's Day until a shocking revelation leads her to believe her love life is cursed. Then, a Lunar New Year celebration introduces her to charming lion dancer boys, and a chance at breaking her family's curse.
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Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy
by Faith Erin Hicks
It should have been a night of triumph for Alix's hockey team. But her mean teammate Lindsay decided to start up with her usual rude comments and today Alix, who usually tries to control her anger, let it finally run free. She needs to learn how to control this anger, and she is sure Ezra, the popular and poised theater kid from her grade, is the answer. So she asks for his help.
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The Ghostkeeper
by Johanna Taylor
When the key to Death's Door is stolen, trapping ghosts in the land of the living, outcast Dorian Leith, who can communicate with the dead, risks everything to find the key and stop them from being consumed by a ghostly rot.
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Karate Prom
by Kyle Starks
In this loving homage to 80's teen comedies and badly dubbed kung fu films, it's love at first knockout for Don, who must punch his way through various opponents in the name of love.
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Youth Group
by Jordan Morris
When cynical, gothy Kay lets her mom talk her into joining the youth group at their church, she's prepared for the dorky sing-alongs and the cheesy slogans about dodging temptation. What she isn't prepared for is walking in on the clean-cut youth group leaders, Meg and Cortland, in the middle of a real-deal exorcism. Turns out these wholesome Christian teens are demon-hunting soldiers in a secret war that's heating up fast.
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Insomniacs After School
by Makoto Ojiro
Two sleepless teenagers find kinship as they escape to their school's astronomy observatory.
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Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
by Steve Sheinkin
This thrilling graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning nonfiction book takes readers back to 1938 where they will witness the creation of the atomic bomb—a story of plotting, risk-taking, deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon.
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Every Day
by David Levithan
Waking up in a different body each day, A, who lives by a certain set of rules, finds the rules no longer apply when he wakes up in the body of Justin, and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
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Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
by Thien Pham
Told through the lens of meaningful food and meals, this graphic novel chronicles the author's childhood immigration to America where food takes on new meaning as he and his family search for belonging, for happiness, and for the American dream.
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Hungry Ghost
by Victoria Ying
After the sudden death of her father, 16-year-old Valerie Chu, who is hiding an eating disorder from her friends and family, reevaluates her life, her choices, and her own body as she tries to find the strength to seek help.
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Be That Way
by Hope Larson
Sixteen-year-old Christine keeps a journal of an eventful year of her life in mid-90's Asheville, North Carolina, which she records through prose and illustration.
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Clementine
by Tillie Walden
Clementine is back on the road, looking to put her traumatic past behind her and forge a new path all her own. But when she comes across an Amish teenager named Amos with his head in the clouds, the unlikely pair journeys North to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont, where they meet up with a small group of teenagers attempting to build a new, walker-free settlement.
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The Rema Chronicles: Realm of the Blue Mist
by Amy Kim Kibuishi
While searching for the truth surrounding her father's death, Tabby Simon is unexpectedly led to Rema, a distant world of magic and beauty, where she discovers she is destined for something far greater than she ever could have imagined.
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World Class: a Graphic Novel
by Jay Sandlin
Life's a pitch for teen football star, Adrian "Colombian Cannon" Molina. With his powerful shot, he seems a shoe-in for the European junior league. When a Regents United elite prep school scout offers him a full scholarship, the news seems too good to be true. Hallway brawls, threatening notes, and constant bullying from a teammate and his cronies consume Adrian's new life, along with crippling anxiety attacks thanks to the fear of losing his spot on the team.
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Harriet Tubman: Toward Freedom
by Whit Taylor
Harriet Tubman did something exceptionally courageous: She escaped slavery. Then she did something impossible: She went back. This modern account of her trip to save her brothers is detailed and authentic. Illustrated with care for the historical record, it offers insight into the life and mind of Tubman, displaying her as a woman with an unshakable desire to break the chains of an unjust society.
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The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor
by Shaenon K. Garrity
After she saves a man from drowning, Haley wakes up in a pocket universe that appears as a gothic estate and helps three brothers whose job it is to protect her world against a penultimate evil.
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