Super Potato and the Return of Zort

From the Series Super Potato

Interest Level: Grade 2 – Grade 5

Zort the Slug King is back! When Super Potato’s old enemy escapes his outer-space prison, he heads for Earth with revenge on his mind. And that’s not all: a trio of galactic bounty hunters are on Zort’s trail. Meanwhile, our hero has his hands full with Big Jaw, a metal-mouthed villain who just chomped his way through a ruby robbery. Things are about to get crowded . . . Get ready for a cosmic kerfuffle!

The Human Body, An Alien’s Guide

Interest Level: Grade 2 – Grade 5

Take a journey inside the body—as an alien! Hop aboard a flying saucer and travel alongside your alien guides who are on a mission to understand the wonders of human body systems. High-impact graphic art explores the circulatory system, the digestive system, the skeletal system, and more. Get a close-up view of how a healthy body works to fight invaders like viruses . . . or spaceships. A raucous graphic-format exploration of body systems with a twist.

Coding Camp Chaos

From the Series The Robot Makers

Interest Level: Grade 4 – Grade 8

When the robot soccer crew and their battle-robot rivals both attend the same coding camp, they get news that ramps up the competition. When the camp ends, only one club will be left standing! The third book in the Robot Makers manhwa series, Coding Camp Chaos, helps explain coding basics such as algorithms, the binary system, and programming languages. It also shares examples of cool unplugged computing activities.

Next-Level Competition

From the Series The Robot Makers

Interest Level: Grade 4 – Grade 8

As one team member plays robot, the makers must program their way to a meal. Thanks to the rivalry between the robot soccer club and battle robot crew, the results get messy. But when the kids’ mysterious mentor, Dr. Cybo, takes them to watch a major robotics tournament, the two crews may find the inspiration they need to level up—if they can go long enough without an argument!

Hotelitor: Luxury-Class Defense and Hospitality Unit

Interest Level: Grade 9 – Grade 12

Hotelitor is the finest hospitality craft in its colony, equipped with jet feet, a hyperspace engine, and single, double, and adjoining rooms.

When a giant alien attacks the ship, Hotelitor’s surviving guests and staff find themselves stranded in deep space. There, 18-year-old intern Anna Greene must take charge. Alongside her fellow entry-level service workers, she’ll try to control the chaos while rival factions emerge, wealthy VIPs seize hotel resources, and the musician-in-residence develops a literal cult following. As Anna and her friends search for a way home, shocking discoveries about Hotelitor’s owners await them—if another giant alien doesn’t smash the crew first.

Just Another Story: A Graphic Migration Account

Interest Level: Grade 9 – Grade 12

When Carlos was nineteen years old, his mother decided to leave her life in El Salvador, seeking a new start in the United States. She arranged the services of a coyote for the journey north. Reluctant to leave, but refusing to let his mother go without him, Carlos joined her. During their trip through Mexico, they experienced the risks and the fears countless people from Central American countries face as they migrate toward different lands. Ten years later, Carlos shared these memories with his cousin Ernesto. The result of their conversation is Just Another Story: A Graphic Migration Account.

Also available in Spanish!

The Climate Crisis

Interest Level: Grade 3 – Grade 6

The impacts of climate change are becoming more and more visible, transforming people’s lives and the environments around them. The Climate Crisis series explores the causes and effects of climate change in an accessible graphic nonfiction format. Through these titles, young readers will learn more about key concepts and major developments within this world-changing topic.

Hammer

Interest Level: Grade 5 – Grade 9

Stud is a 14-year-old boy with the unusual ability to turn his hands into hammers. With a father who often abandons him to go on expeditions, Stud fends for himself while trying to achieve the goal his father has told him is the most important in life: to make a true friend. Unfortunately, the other kids in his town shun him for being weird, so he goes on his own adventures and finds true friends along the way.

Clock Striker

Interest Level: Grade 7 – Grade 9

Clock Striker follows Shonen manga’s first Black female lead hero, Cast, in her quest to become a member of the SMITHS, the legendary warrior engineers and problem solvers. The problem? SMITHS are usually not women, and there’s never been a young Black kid. Selected as a STRIKER (apprentice) to the enigmatic Philomena Clock, one of the rare female SMITHS (and considered a loose cannon), Cast is determined to follow her dreams no matter how dangerous their adventures get.

Apple Black

Interest Level: Grade 8 – Grade 12

Long ago, humans acquired fruits called “Black” that turned humans into sorcerers. Apple Black follows the young sorcerer Sano as he struggles to fulfill his prophesied destiny as the Trinity, the savior of the world. Sano follows his dangerous and challenging quest.