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Middle Grade/Youth Graphic novels
Graphic novels I've read and given reviews on thecozzyalchemist my youtube page
I love book #2 just as much as book #1 its cozy and the art is beautiful
Lightfall: Shadow of the Bird
Sweet book with a touch of magic. Focus on protecting the oceans and earth
Aquicorn Cove
Cute story about the art of caring for tea dragons and new found friends
The Tea Dragon Society
Cute cozy graphic about a girl who loves all things witchy only to find out her mom has been hiding a big secret about their family
The Okay Witch
This is such a cozy cute book on dealing with change and all the unknowns that come with it. I would say this is book #2
Garlic and the Witch
The #1 book in this cozy series. It follows garlic who is anxious and not very confident in herself. When the town ppl find out a vampire has moved close, they choose her to go and see if the vampire is friendly or not. Its super cute
Garlic and the Vampire
A sweet story. Cat isn't happy about leaving her friends for Bahía de la Luna, but Maya has cystic fibrosis and will benefit from the cool, salty air that blows in from the sea. As the girls explore their new home, a neighbor lets them in on a secret...
Ghosts: A Graphic Novel
Sweet Memoir about a middle schoolers experience and going on a international trip. Its a feel good story.
A First Time for Everything
It's the night of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival, when the town gathers to float paper lanterns down the river. Legend has it that after drifting out of sight, they'll soar off to the Milky Way and turn into brilliant stars, but could that actual...
This Was Our Pact
Frizzy is about Marlene, a young Dominican girl whose greatest enemy is the hair salon! Through her struggles and triumphs, this heartwarming and gorgeous middle-grade graphic novel shows the radical power of accepting yourself as you are, frizzy cur...
Frizzy
Fitting in can be hard, especially when you’re as small as Ember, a tiny boy living alone in a city of giants. But Ember’s luck changes when he meets Lua, a kindly sea turtle, who escorts him across the ocean to a school for little creatures on a won...
Ember and the Island of Lost Creatures
Tucked away in a government facility nicknamed the Playroom, six not-quite-human kids learn to control their strange and unpredictable abilities. Life is good—or safe, at least—hidden from the prying eyes of a judgmental world. That is, until a secur...
Another Kind
Book #1 in this 3 book series. Bea meets Cad, a member of the Galdurians, an ancient race thought to be long-extinct. Cad believes that if anyone can help him find his missing people, it’s the Pig Wizard. But when the two arrive home, the Pig Wizard ...
Lightfall: The Girl & the Galdurian
This a wonderful story dealing with change, puberty, loss and friendships. Lora wants to stay a kid forever, and she'll do anything to make that happen . . . including befriending Alexa, the ghost who haunts her house. A middle-grade graphic novel ab...
Séance Tea Party: (A Graphic Novel)
Young Adult Graphic novels
Young Adult graphic novels I given reviews on thecozzyalchemist my youtube page
These were pretty juvenile for me but its about a funny group of girls at camp that fight monsters and build friendships.
Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware The Kitten Holy
This is a war-centered story about a girl who wants to become a knight and earn her place in the empire but she quickly realizes what that means and shes left to choose between the empire or her heart.
Squire
A story around a girl who is dealing with the loss of her mother and is helping her dad take care of their family laundry mat only to bump into a ghost.
Sheets
A young boy hides his identity to stay safe but the very thing he's hiding will help him conquor his fears and save others
Wynd Book One: The Flight of the Prince
Falling in love just got sweeter in this charming, romantic YA graphic novel from WEBTOON, the #1 digital comic platform. Ray, a young seer struggling with her powers, discovers first love and friendship in her town's magic bakery.
Crumbs
Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of “personal experimentation,” influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvini...
Giant Days Vol. 1
Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends. Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebras...
Pumpkinheads
This was an amazing book. This is one of those book that's should be in every middle/highschool library. Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grand...
Displacement
I have the WHOLE series minus book 7. I was told about this web series by a friend and I absolutely love it. All of Olympus—and the Underworld—are talking about the God of the Dead and the sprightly daughter of Demeter. But despite the rumors of thei...
Lore Olympus: Volume Three
I have almost the complete series. I love it so much. Persephone was ready to start a new life when she left the mortal realm for Olympus. However, she quickly discovered the dark side of her glamorous new home—from the relatively minor gossip threat...
Lore Olympus: Volume Two
This series is so addictive, sweet and powerful. I've reread the web series so many times. Persephone, young goddess of spring, is new to Olympus. Her mother, Demeter, has raised her in the mortal realm, but after Persephone promises to train as a sa...
Lore Olympus: Volume One
I bought this randomly and loved it. Ludovica Bonnaire, a pampered Victorian noble, dreams of adventure. Spurred by her desire to learn more about the world outside her sheltered existence, she steals her brother’s identity (along with his ship) and ...
Tiger, Tiger Vol. 1
Adult Graphic novels
Adult graphic novels I given reviews on thecozzyalchemist my youtube page
War centered about risking it all for your people and freedom
Shattered Warrior
Crushing follows two people-one determined and a bit awkward, the other unsure where to begin-longing to find out where they belong. Their intersecting and overlapping journeys reveal hidden connections and the unpredictable and unexpected ways we m...
Crushing (a Graphic Novel)
This was such a cute and cozy love story between a vampire and werewolf.
Fangs
Black characters and stories
Graphic novels that center black voices and lives
18+ graphic novel: This was a beautiful graphic novel to black women and our hair and sisterhood. I loved this so much the art was beautiful as well.
Wash Day Diaries
Middle Grade Graphic: I loved this story, I cant wait to read the second one. Zuli, a young girl must stop a threat to her magical world. This has action and is fast pace and the TWIST at the end!! OMG.
Wingbearer
OMG! this book was so good! Who doesn't love a good werewolf story? After sneaking out against her mother's wishes, Artie Irvin spots a massive wolf--then watches it don a bathrobe and transform into her mom. Thrilled to discover she comes from a lin...
Artie and the Wolf Moon
Can you be a hero...if society doesn't see you as a person? Nubia has always been a little bit...different. As a baby she showcased Amazonian-like strength by pushing over a tree to rescue her neighbor's cat. But despite her having similar abilities,...
Nubia: Real One
Youth/middle school graphic: I loved this book so much. For as long as she can remember, Chelsea Grant has tried everything she can think of to distance herself from the disastrous damage her father does to her social life. It's not easy to shake her...
Ghost Roast
Books I've read
The books that have read and enjoyed
The novel and this graphic are life changing and I recommend everyone reads one of them at least once in their life. Paulo Coelho’s masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldl...
The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel
LGBTQIA+ Graphic Novels
The graphic novels from middle grade, young adult and adult that have LGBTQIA+ rep. Check out my PRIDE section for more graphic novels with detailed rep.
Young Adult graphic: Ari wants to be in a band and move away from his tow and not work in his parents bakery. Hector is in town and gets a job at Ari's parents bakery---will love bloom?
Bloom
Young adult: If you like star war, space distopia worlds + teenage anst this is for you. This is a thicc one but the growth and development of the characters and story was enjoyable
On a Sunbeam
Young adult: When Margot meets Elena, emotions run high, magic is in the air, and doughnuts...float? cute sapphic graphic novel
Doughnuts and Doom
Book #2 about a group of vigilante women who work in a album store during the day and save the world at night
Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-O!
Middle grade: Trans rep. After a terrible political coup usurps their noble house, Hawke and Grayson flee to stay alive and assume new identities, Hanna and Grayce. Desperation and chance lead them to the Communion of Blue, an order of magical women ...
The Deep & Dark Blue
18+ graphic: Cute Queer love story: Ella and Madeleine don’t know it yet, but they’re about to embark on the strangest romantic adventure of their lives, and it’s not just their hearts that are getting stolen in this laugh-out-loud, capering graphic ...
Thieves
18 + Graphic: Queer/trans/non-binary rep! I loved this book so MUCH! Its about drunk mermaids that decide to go on land to drink more but disguised as humans. Its all fun and games until the next morning they don't remember how to turn back in to mer...
Thirsty Mermaids
17+ graphic novel: Trans and queer rep: A darkly beautiful story of identity, family, love, loss, and magic. Everyone has secrets. Mags's has teeth. Magdalena Herrera is about to graduate high school, but she already feels like an adult with serious ...
The Deep Dark: A Graphic Novel
Young Adult graphic: I enjoyed this cozy twist on an old story. Sleepy Hollow and queer romance meet in this coming-of-age tale
Hollow
18+ Graphic: A beautiful graphic novel fantasy romance that follows two young women who have to go on their own separate adventures to discover the truth about themselves and about each other. Preet is magic. Valissa is not. Everyone in their village...
Coming Back: (A Graphic Novel)
Young adult: Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great gro...
The Girl from the Sea: A Graphic Novel
Young adult graphic: Queer-gender rep: I purchased this for my home library I loved it so much. Paris, at the dawn of the modern age: Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride—or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hi...
The Prince and the Dressmaker
Young Adult graphic: Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. A sweet and charming coming-of-age story that explores friendship, love, and coming out. This edition features beautiful two-color artwork.
Heartstopper #1: A Graphic Novel: Volume 1
Young Adult graphic: Nick and Charlie are best friends, but one spontaneous kiss has changed everything. In the aftermath, Charlie thinks that he's made a horrible mistake and ruined his friendship with Nick, but Nick is more confused than ever.Love works in surprising ways, and Nick comes to see the world from a new perspective. He discovers all sorts of things about his friends, his family... and himself.
Heartstopper #2: A Graphic Novel: Volume 2
Mental Health Graphic novels
Graphic Novels that focus on mental health and how those who live with it experience life
18+ graphic novel: I enjoyed this book that spoke on how depression and su1c1de ideation looks like from the person struggling and how the world around them seems as they struggle to do day-to-day activities. This really opens your eyes to how to tre...
This is How I Disappear
17+ graphic: This stunning debut graphic memoir features page after page of gorgeous, evocative art, perfect for Tillie Walden fans. It's a cross section of the Korean-American diaspora and mental health, a moving and powerful read
In Limbo