Here are the top 30 comics & graphic novels books for 12 year olds. Please click Read Review to read book reviews on Amazon. You can also click Find in Library to check book availability at your local library. If the default library is not correct, please follow Change Library to reset it.
1. The Hobbit: An Illustrated Edition of the Fantasy Classic
by: J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Dixon, David Wenzel Release date: May 29, 2001 Number of Pages: 133 Find in Library Read Review |
First published in the United States more than seventy-five years ago, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is one of the best-loved books of all time. Now a blockbuster film by Peter Jackson, Academy Award–winning director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit was also adapted into a fully painted graphic novel, a classic in its own right, presented here in a new expanded edition.
When Thorin Oakenshield and his band of dwarves embark upon a dangerous quest to reclaim stolen treasure from the evil dragon Smaug, Gandalf the wizard suggests an unlikely accomplice: Bilbo Baggins, a quiet and contented hobbit. Along the way, the company faces trolls, goblins, giant spiders, and worse. But in the end it is Bilbo alone who must face the most dreaded dragon in all Middle-earth—and a destiny that waits in the dark caverns beneath the Misty Mountains, where a twisted creature known as Gollum jealously guards a precious magic ring.
2. Supernatural Hero (Book 1) (Action & Adventure)
by: Eran Gadot Release date: Oct 21, 2013 Number of Pages: 159 Find in Library Read Review |
Beverly Hills Book Awards 2014 – Winner
Reader’s Favorite Book Awards 2014 – Silver Medal
IPPY Book Awards 2014 – Bronze Medal
Purple Dragonfly Book Awards 2014 – Honorable Mention
Indie Excellence Book Awards 2014 – Finalist
London Book Festival 2013 – Honorable Mention
Supernatural Hero and the Witches (Book 2) is out!
Don’t try to be someone else, be yourself!
Reading this book will make you see that being yourself is the only way
for success, all you need is to believe.
Andy is the nerd everyone makes fun of. He’s really skinny, wears glasses and talks to himself, but he falls in love with the prettiest girl in the class. One day Grandpa dies and turns into a ghost. Then, Andy discovers a new power, he can see ghosts and talk to the dead.
Join Andy’s journey and find out how a nerd can become a hero.
Supernatural hero is a great children’s book with an outstanding story, for the whole family to enjoy. This book series will stay with you forever.
3. Dork Diaries Box Set (Books 4-6): Dork Diaries 4; Dork Diaries 5; Dork Diaries 6
by: Rachel Renée Russell, Rachel Renée Russell Release date: Oct 01, 2013 Number of Pages: 1056 Find in Library Read Review |
Books four, five, and six in the wildly popular New York Times, USA TODAY, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Dork Diaries series are all available in one dorktastic boxed set!
This boxed set includes Dork Diaries #4: Tales From a Not-So-Graceful Ice Princess, Dork Diaries #5: Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-All, and Dork Diaries #6: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker.
4. The Last Kids on Earth and the Zombie Parade
by: Max Brallier, Douglas Holgate Release date: Sep 06, 2016 Number of Pages: 296 Find in Library Read Review |
“Terrifyingly fun! Delivers big thrills and even bigger laughs.”–Jeff Kinney, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Diary of a Wimpy Kid
The zombies are disappearing. This might seem like a good thing, since zombies eat your brains, but normal human kid Jack Sullivan is suspicious. He keeps hearing an eerie shrieking noise that seems to be almost summoning the zombies—but to where, and for what (probably) foul purpose?
Jack, his three best friends (maybe the only people left on Earth), and their pet monster Rover need to get to the bottom of this. Along the way they encounter a lot more than they bargained for, including a giant Wormungulous, a pizza parlor monster hangout, an ancient evil who destroys worlds, and a stereo system that is totally the bomb. Can Jack figure out why the zombies are vanishing . . . before he and his friends are next?
From the Hardcover edition.
5. The Underground Abductor (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #5): An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman
by: Nathan Hale Release date: Apr 21, 2015 Number of Pages: 128 Find in Library Read Review |
6. Ponyo Picture Book (PONYO ON THE CLIFF)
by: Hayao Miyazaki, Hayao Miyazaki Release date: Aug 04, 2009 Number of Pages: 152 Find in Library Read Review |
Ponyo, a female fish, runs away from her home in the sea and ends up stranded on the shore. Sosuke, a five-year-old boy who lives on a cliff, rescues her. He promises to protect Ponyo forever. Ponyo grows very fond of Sosuke, and with the help of her sisters and her father’s magic, she becomes human. This results in a great imbalance in the cosmos, causing great storms and floods and satellites to fall from the sky. Ponyo becomes a fish again and Sosuke promises to love her no matter what form she takes. In the end, when Ponyo kisses Sosuke, she becomes human again.
7. The Universe Verse
by: James Lu Dunbar Release date: Nov 01, 2014 Number of Pages: 112 Find in Library Read Review |
8. Yotsuba&!, Vol. 12
by: Kiyohiko Azuma Release date: Nov 19, 2013 Number of Pages: 224 Find in Library Read Review |
9. Welcome To Showside
by: Ian McGinty Release date: Jun 28, 2016 Number of Pages: 176 Find in Library Read Review |
10. Yotsuba&!, Vol. 13
by: Kiyohiko Azuma Release date: May 24, 2016 Number of Pages: 224 Find in Library Read Review |
11. Cardcaptor Sakura Omnibus, Book 4
by: CLAMP, CLAMP, Carl Gustav Horn Release date: Oct 02, 2012 Number of Pages: 592 Find in Library Read Review |
Now is the time for people to admit the feelings for other people they’ve held secret . . . but there are so many feelings, running in so many directions! What are the true desires of Eriol, the powerful young boy who is the reincarnation of Clow Reed . . . and why did he wish that Sakura would replace him as Master of the Clow?
12. Chicken: A Comic Cat Memoir
by: Terese Jungle, Jungle Terese Release date: Jan 08, 2016 Number of Pages: 82 Find in Library Read Review |
A great read for kids and cats of all ages 🙂
Chicken is a soulful expression of the love between cat and person as it collides with the powerful tide of family, friends, loss, and the invisible forces that connect us.
Double Gold Winner in the 2016 Global E-book Awards for Best Children’s Nonfiction and Best Pet Nonfiction! For anyone who has ever loved a cat, Chicken‘s true story is a graphic novel that touches the heart. From funny to emotional, sweet to silly, thoughtful to mystical, this true cat memoir captures it all in 72 full-color, smile-making illustrations with bonus fun facts about cats and their habits.
“A beautiful, tenderly told story that’s appropriate for both children and adults. If you pay attention to all the little doodles, background decoration and the notes scattered throughout the illustrations, there’s a second story brewing just for adults. Look carefully, there are little gems buried in the details of the illustrations!”
— The Hungry Monster
13. Human Body Theater
by: Maris Wicks Release date: Oct 06, 2015 Number of Pages: 240 Find in Library Read Review |
Welcome to the Human Body Theater, where your master of ceremonies is going to lead you through a theatrical revue of each and every biological system of the human body! Starting out as a skeleton, the MC puts on a new layer of her costume (her body) with each “act.” By turns goofy and intensely informative, the Human Body Theater is always accessible and always entertaining.
Maris Wicks is a biology nerd, and by the time you’ve read this book, you will be too! Harnessing her passion for science (and her background as a science educator for elementary and middle-school students), she has created a comics-format introduction to the human body that will make an expert of any reader — young or old!
14. The Truth Is Out There Brendan & Erc in Exile Volume 1
by: Amadeus, Amadeus Release date: May 30, 2013 Number of Pages: 120 Find in Library Read Review |
15. Dragonbreath #11: The Frozen Menace
by: Ursula Vernon Release date: Jan 12, 2016 Number of Pages: 169 Find in Library Read Review |
Danny Dragonbreath doesn’t just have a cold. He is cold. His fire has gone out! And that’s super-dangerous for a fire-breathing dragon like Danny. So, following a tip from his great-grandfather, Danny and his trusty friends Wendell and Christiana head to the farthest north to find the magical ingredient that will reignite his fire. On the way, the gang faces an extremely windy bridge, killer ice worms, and one very confused baby phoenix.
A perfect blend of text and comic panels, this goofy eleventh installment in the Dragonbreath series is guaranteed to make you laugh until smoke comes out of your nose!
16. Hamster Princess: Of Mice and Magic
by: Ursula Vernon Release date: Mar 15, 2016 Number of Pages: 240 Find in Library Read Review |
Princess Harriet has absolutely no interest in brushing her hair, singing duets with woodland animals, or any other typical princess activities. So when a fairy tells a very bored Harriet about twelve mice princesses who are cursed to dance all night long, she happily accepts the quest and sets off with a poncho of invisibility and her trusty battle quail. But when she arrives at the Mouse Kingdom, she discovers there’s more to the curse than meets the eye, and trying to help is dangerous business . . . even for a tough princess like Harriet.
From the creator of Dragonbreath, comes a laugh-out-loud funny new comic-hybrid series, bursting with girl power and furry fairy tale retellings.
17. BONK!: A Mutts Treasury
by: Patrick McDonnell Release date: Oct 09, 2012 Number of Pages: 208 Find in Library Read Review |
Enjoy the day-to-day adventures of two animal buddies, a small mutt with a big heart named Earl, and Mooch, a cat with his own way of thinking and talking (yesh!).
Mutts explores the special bond between animals and their guardians, and the endearing friendship of Earl and Mooch. It strikes a delicate balance between joy and fun and responsible social commentary. Mutts has been recognized for its distinctive style, heartwarming humor, and compassionate advocacy for animal issues.
In this 16th chronological collection of Mutts strips, a year’s worth of color Sunday strips and black-and-white daily strips are included, along with pop-art splash pages that highlight McDonnell’s imaginative artwork and distinctive style.
18. Garfield Shovels It In: His 51st Book
by: Jim Davis Release date: Jan 25, 2011 Number of Pages: 96 Find in Library Read Review |
Garfield believes in living life to the fullest. No easy task for a cat with a bottomless stomach. In this latest collection of comics, the fat cat with the legendary appetite treats himself to seconds, thirds, fourths, and fifths and proves that anything worth eating is worth overeating.
19. Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse: Vols. 3 & 4 Collector’s Box Set (Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse)
by: Floyd Gottfredson, David Gerstein Release date: Nov 15, 2012 Number of Pages: 560 Find in Library Read Review |
20. Pokémon Adventures, Vol. 15 (Pokemon)
by: Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto Release date: Mar 05, 2013 Number of Pages: 144 Find in Library Read Review |
All your favorite Pokémon game characters jump out of the screen into the pages of this action-packed manga!
Ruby’s father Norman is the new Gym Leader of Petalburg City. But Ruby doesn’t want to follow in his father’s footsteps—he wants to win Pokémon Contests! Sapphire’s father Professor Birch is the local Pokémon researcher. But Sapphire is tired of gathering scientific data—she wants to win Pokémon battles! When Ruby and Sapphire meet, they’re more likely to hit each other than hit it off. But then Sapphire challenges Ruby to a competition… Which of them will achieve their dreams in just eighty days?!
Meanwhile, what dastardly plan is Team Aqua up to…and how does it involve Sapphire?!
21. Timmy Failure: The Book You’re Not Supposed to Have
by: Stephan Pastis, Stephan Pastis Release date: Sep 01, 2016 Number of Pages: 304 Find in Library Read Review |
This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know this: there’s a Merry, a Larry, a missing tooth, and a teachers’ strike that is crippling Timmy Failure’s academic future. Worst of all, Timmy is banned from detective work. It’s a conspiracy of buffoons. He recorded everything in his private notebook, but then the manuscript was stolen. If this book gets out, he will be grounded for life. Or maybe longer. And will Timmy’s mom really marry Doorman Dave?
22. Asterix Omnibus 7: Includes Asterix and the Soothsayer #19, Asterix in Corsica #20, and Asterix and Caesar’s Gift #21
by: Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo Release date: Jun 17, 2014 Number of Pages: 156 Find in Library Read Review |
23. Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Death and Dementia
by: Edgar Allan Poe, Gris Grimly Release date: Aug 04, 2009 Number of Pages: 144 Find in Library Read Review |
24. Rabbi Harvey Rides Again: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Folktales Let Loose in the Wild West
by: Steve Sheinkin Release date: Feb 01, 2008 Number of Pages: 144 Find in Library Read Review |
Rabbi Harvey is Back with Ten Hilarious New Adventures
In this follow-up to the popular The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom and Wit in the Wild West, the Rabbi returns to the streets of Elk Spring, Colorado. Part Wild West sheriff, part old world rabbi, Harvey protects his town and delivers justice, wielding only the weapons of wisdom, wit, and a bit of trickery. These adventures combine Jewish and American folklore by creatively retelling comic Jewish folktales and setting them loose on the western frontier of the 1870s.
As his fame grows throughout the Rocky Mountains, Rabbi Harvey meets new characters?including the luckless gold miner Abigail?and faces a slew of new challenges. He encounters the return of “Big Milt” and Wolfie Wasserman (the most feared father-and-son outlaw team east of Nevada), and investigates another bold crime by the sweet-faced Bad Bubbe. And, as ever, the Rabbi is the quickest draw in the West?when it comes to pulling out bits of Talmudic insight to fit any occasion, that is. Like any great collection of Jewish folktales, these stories contain layers of humor and timeless wisdom that will entertain, teach and, especially, make you laugh.
25. Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: Terror Of The Beagle Boys
by: Carl Barks Release date: May 10, 2016 Number of Pages: 232 Find in Library Read Review |
There are sea monsters, millionaires, spies, and more in the latest volume of Carl Barks’s internationally beloved Donald Duck comics.
When Donald and the boys wind up in Old California, the rush is on ? for the gold in them thar hills! Carl Barks delivers another superb collection of outrageous hijinks, preposterous situations, bamboozlement, befuddlement, and all-around cartooning brilliance. Full color illustrations throughout
26. Miss Quince and the Can-Do Crew!: The Mysterious Teacher and Her Class of Unlikely Super Heroes
by: Mark Whyte, Katie Whyte, Anipix – Pawan Kumar and Team, Steven Whyte Release date: Jan 31, 2014 Number of Pages: 36 Find in Library Read Review |
Kids Living Large! A mysterious teacher, adventures, bullies, a big mean dog and super heroes all wrapped together! — Do you have BIG dreams? Every kid (adults too) dreams of living out big dreams and having great adventures, but can you still “live large” after an injury or when born with a disability? This book is about living out Better Dreams – Even When it seems that you have limitations and the walls and barriers around you appear insurmountable.
You’ll find that the possibilities are endless when you have a “Miss Quince” by your side! Disabled superheroes? Children’s adventures from a wheelchair or using a cane? Impossible, right? Well, not when you meet Miss Quince. You see, in the beautiful bay-side town of Windswept, comes this teaching-dynamo named Miss Quince who brings with her an amazing and delightful ability – she completely transforms the lives of her disabled students. The band of bullies had best beware, for there’s a “new sheriff” in town and she’s bringing with her the most unlikely group of super-heroes this world has ever imagined.
Book Themes Include: Courage under pressure, overcoming bullying, perseverance, true friendships, excellent teacher model, living large in spite of a disability, and genuine super heroes!
Special needs student’s bring very different gifts and abilities “to the table”. They appear to be “disabled” with autism, or downs syndrome, blindness, cerebral palsy or spinal injuries or the like, but are they? You see, the students in Windswept are about to receive a whole new understanding of just how really GREAT, being different can be.
In this episode, you’ll follow Marcus and his new Can-Do Crew friends as Marcus starts a whole new way of living after a life-changing injury. Soon enough, he’ll find that being disabled is simply a bit of an inconvenience and NOT the handicap that most think it is – in fact, he’s never had so much fun before. It begins when he enters the classroom behind the yellow door and finds among this unlikely group of students, a CAN-Do spirit, and with it some very cool and unique skills.
Children from 9-12, but frankly kids and adults of all ages dream of being something special, a hero who can “slay giants”. This soon to be a best seller will warm your heart, bring a tear to your eyes and most of all give you, your kids and anyone battling a disability – brand new hope. Yes, it really is possible to maximize whatever talent God has given you, and Miss Quince will pave the way for that to happen. This book brings a “magical” touch to kindle children’s books, but more than magical, it’s filled with courage and possibilities.
The authors bring their own unique understanding to this book. In that, Mark is disabled from a spinal injury, Katie works with disabled kids as a speech-language pathologist and together they have one son who is autistic. As such, they add heart and authenticity to their writing.
Who’s this book for?
* “Kids” of all ages, able and disabled.
* Disabled children.
* Parents of special needs kids.
* Special education teachers.
* Parents/teachers who want to teach their “normal” kids that kids with disabilities are pretty “normal” too.
* Dreamers and adventurers who want to dream big and live large.
So hold on to your seats, this “train” is about to leave the station…Miss Quince is in town and she’s gonna shake things up.
** A free audio book version is included – see the table of contents for the audio download after purchase.
27. Yotsuba&!, Vol. 7
by: Kiyohiko Azuma Release date: Dec 15, 2009 Number of Pages: 208 Find in Library Read Review |
28. Lio: Making Friends
by: Mark Tatulli Release date: May 14, 2013 Number of Pages: 224 Find in Library Read Review |
A curious young scientist and comic book fan, Lio is the defender of the defenseless and the inventor of a legion of zombie bunnies. Lio is joined in his day-to-day exploits by his exasperated and sleep-deprived father, a pet snake named Frank, a squid named Ishmael, and various imaginary robots and creepy, crawly monsters. Within this humorously macabre framework of sarcasm, parody, and high jinks, sidesplitting laughter abounds—all without so much as a word.
29. Max & Charlie
by: Zack Lieberman, Louis Neubert Release date: Sep 15, 2016 Number of Pages: 136 Find in Library Read Review |
30. The Rat Brain Fiasco #1 (Splurch Academy)
by: Julie Berry, Sally Gardner Release date: Aug 12, 2010 Number of Pages: 208 Find in Library Read Review |
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- Action & Adventure
- Activities, Crafts & Games
- Animals
- Biographies
- Classics
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Technology
- Early Learning
- Education & Reference
- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
- History
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Humor
- Literature & Fiction
- Mysteries & Detectives
- Religions
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports & Outdoors
- Children’s Cookbooks
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- Action & Adventure
- Activities, Crafts & Games
- Animals
- Biographies
- Classics
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Technology
- Early Learning
- Education & Reference
- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
- History
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Humor
- Literature & Fiction
- Mysteries & Detectives
- Religions
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports & Outdoors
- Children’s Cookbooks
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