GPLD 2025 Spring Favorites: Chapter Books/Graphic Novels

After coming out as trans, fourteen-year-old A is forced to attend weekly Save Our Sons and Daughters meetings, where he uncovers the terrifying truth that the group is run by a demon feeding on their pain and is part of a larger, darker force preying on the world's vulnerable.

"Eleven-year-old Vanya Vallen has always felt like she doesn't fit in. She's British Indian in a mostly white English town, her parents won't talk about their pasts, and she has ADHD. Oh, and she talks to books. More importantly, the books talk back. When her family is attacked by a monster she believed existed only in fairy tales, Vanya discovers that her parents have secrets -- and that there are a lot more monsters out there. Overnight, she's whisked...

"Since Papi was deported, Mimi Perez hustles around her Brooklyn neighborhood fixing things to earn money and joins a robotics competition to win a $50,000 prize, and when a robot crashes to earth from space, Mimi brings it home to fix"-- Provided by publisher.

"The night that workhouse orphan Scilla Brown dares to climb the Earl of Havermore's garden wall, she wants only to steal a peach--the best thing she's ever tasted in her hard, hungry life. But when she's caught by the earl's head gardener and mistaken for a boy, she grabs on to something more: a temporary job scrubbing flowerpots. If she can just keep up her deception, she'll have a soft bed and food beyond her wildest dreams . . . maybe even peaches....

"Moving from India to the US is difficult for Geetha, but things start to get better when she and a new friend help rescue a stranded seal"-- Provided by publisher.

Hassan faces a hectic month of homework, soccer and gaming while fasting every day for the holy month of Ramadan, in a story about balancing family traditions and secular middle school life.

"Casey wants nothing more than to be a detective. No mystery is too big or small for her to tackle! OK, so she doesn't see everything coming -- mean girl Dina always has the last word, and Casey is constantly falling into embarrassing disasters in front of cute boy AJ. But now, it's Casey's eleventh birthday, and she's just been given a magnifying glass and a pair of binoculars -- perfect gifts for today's mystery: Mr. Muffin, a cat Casey's parents...

Welcome to Hillside Valley! 12 year-old New York city kid Santi is heading upstate, in the debut of this irresistible contemporary graphic novel series about friends, family, community and identity—just right for fans of Mexikid and the Click series!
How can you speak up if you don't have the words?


Santi is excited to spend the summer in Hillside Valley, meeting the local kids, eating his Abuela's delicious...

"Eleven-year-old Reuben Mahmud just wants a break. When he takes his pet corgi, Mr. Muffins, to the park, he expects to get just that--a break. But instead, he gets an alien invasion smack dab in the middle of his neighborhood! Oh! And apparently Mr. Muffins is the chosen one destined to save the galaxy? This should be interesting . . . Dragged into the middle of an epic space war by an intergalactic soldier named Cassara, Reuben learns that the...

Ave must adjust to a new country, a new school, and a new family dynamic when their mom and younger brother move to Kansas while their father and older sister stay in Mexico during the parents' divorce.