Winter Newsletter 2023 YA Graphic Novels

Are You Afraid of the Dark? meets Indigenous folklore to create an excellent, horror-filled graphic novel. Teens take turns telling scary stories around a campfire while also navigating their own delicate social structure. Each story is creepy, made even darker by using real-world issues these teens face—women going missing, tough home lives, and bullying. Be prepared to have your skin crawl in the best possible way!

—Ivy

Set in an early 2000s small town, with a yearning for friendship, tension between school and home, and just so many crushes, Kate Leth’s Mall Goth is a story recognizable from any decade. Here we see a complicated, messy, real-life teen navigating high school in a new town. Throw in some spicy chips, fries, video games, cute cashiers, and terrible mall jobs, and you get a fun, relatable story that’s built to last.

—Jocelyn