Spring 2025 Graphic Novel Roundup: Panels, Plots, and Page-Turners!
This season, we’re thrilled to spotlight a selection of compelling titles and series that showcase the diverse storytelling and artistic talents in the graphic novel universe. Join us as we explore the must-read graphic novels hitting the shelves in the first half of 2025.
Grow Happy
Interest Level: Kindergarten – Grade 3
Kiko shows the reader how she grows happiness: by making good choices, taking care of her body and mind, paying attention to her feelings, problem solving, and spending time with family and friends. You can too!
I Want Your Moo, 2nd Edition
Interest Level: Kindergarten – Grade 3
Toodles doesn’t like herself. Her legs are skinny, her feathers are brown, and her head has no hair. Most of all, she hates her gobble-gobble. All that changes when Toodles saves the day with her super-confident, super-empowering, super-turkey gobble-gobble!
Weird and Wild Dinosaurs
Interest Level: Kindergarten – Grade 3
This series of high-interest graphic novels introduces young readers to lesser-known but weird and cool dinosaurs. Get up close and personal with the teeth, claws, and spikes that make them so special.
Super Potato and the Sewer Smackdown
From the Series Super Potato
Interest Level: Grade 2 – Grade 5
Space fugitive Zort the Slug King has chased Super Potato all over outer space. But now he’s trapped our hero in Earth’s sewers. Will Super Potato survive this super-stinky cosmic kerfuffle?
I’m a Dumbo Octopus!
From the Series Anne Lambelet’s Marine Life Graphic Guides
Interest Level: Grade 2 – Grade 5
Dumbo octopus Grimpy presents a tour of the whole cephalopod class: cuttlefish, nautiluses, octopuses, and squids. When he dwells on everything he can’t do, the others show him why it’s great to be a dumbo!
Whose Poo Is This?
Interest Level: Grade 2 – Grade 5
Join Dr. Egg, Dr. Yang, and Dr. Woong as they study animals, explore the natural world, and solve mysteries as these scientists bring the gross but fascinating world of poo right to you!
La crisis climática (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. Now in Spanish!
The Case of the Bloody Statue
From the Series Mystery Science Detectives
Interest Level: Grade 4 – Grade 6
Some streamers sneak into an abandoned mansion and capture footage of statues crying tears of blood. Everyone at school is terrified! That is, everyone but the Mystery Science Detectives!
Erin and Yrso
From the Series The Giants
Interest Level: Grade 4 – Grade 8
When a colossal force of nature named Yrso awakens from its ancient slumber, it asks young Erin for protection. To save the world, they will have to unite in a special kind of harmony . . . .
Faiza Is a Fighter
Interest Level: Grade 4 – Grade 8
Faiza wants to win the biggest boxing tournament in town. When a landslide hits her village, will she be able to achieve her dream without the presence of her biggest supporter?
The Robot Makers
Interest Level: Grade 4 – Grade 8
The National Robot Dance Competition is over and Haedal Academy’s team earned second place! Given the lack of preparation time, the kids are happy with the results. But back at school, their classmates are giving them the cold shoulder. And when a popular streamer named Cyborg Captain calls them out for all the world to see, the team will be tested like never before.
The Big Tournament
From the Series Magda, Intergalactic Chef
Interest Level: Grade 5 – Grade 8
Twelve-year-old Magda’s gift for inventing unique and delicious dishes earns her a spot in the famous intergalactic cooking tournament, but she discovers a conspiracy to rig the competition and steal the prize: the world-healing Nectar.
Hammer
Interest Level: Grade 5 – Grade 9
Our hero Stud has teleported to the Jungle Kingdom. After his bag and the Kingdom Maps are stolen, Stud joins forces with a familiar ally to evade the Jungle King, who will stop at nothing to gain the Kingdom Maps.
Gunhild
Interest Level: Grade 5 – Grade 9
Could you follow your dreams if the whole world was against you? Gunhild dreams of becoming a real-life god, and everyone everywhere thinks it’s a terrible idea made up by a petulant twelve-year-old.
Either Way
Interest Level: Grade 7 – Grade 9
Cael wants to know who he is more than anything. With the help of a trusted teacher, a new friend, and his favorite book, Cael comes out as gay, comfortable with who he is and confident that it’s okay.
Mamie Phipps Clark, Champion for Children
From the Series Extraordinary Women in Psychology
Interest Level: Grade 7 – Grade 9
This inspiring graphic novel tells the story of groundbreaking psychologist and civil rights activist Mamie Phipps Clark, PhD, whose work ultimately played a vital role in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.
Massively Multiplayer World of Ghosts
Interest Level: Grade 8 – Grade 12
Nilay receives a mysterious package from his mother, whom he hasn’t seen in five years. The mysterious device inside launches him into The World of Ghosts—and the game is bigger than Nilay can imagine.
Apple Black
Interest Level: Grade 8 – Grade 12
Prophesied savior Sano continues his quest, but he fears his power can either save the world or destroy it. The young sorcerers of Black Bottom Island continue the fight against the rebels and protect the Trinity at all costs.
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