January 2019: Best of 2018 list by K. Pearson
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The Backstagers: Rebels Without Applause Volume 1
by James Tynion
Transfering to an all-boys school, Jory befriends the Backstagers, the school's lowly stage crew, who are determined to put together the best show the school has ever seen while dealing with the magical underground world located under the school.
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Brave
by Svetlana Chmakova
A follow-up to the Eisner Award-nominated Awkward finds a misfit art club targeted by the school's bullies while Jenny and Akilah try to raise awareness, only to find their friendship tested by differing perspectives.
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Check Please!: #Hockey Book 1
by Ngozi Ukazu
Hockey player and amateur vlogger Eric Bittle chronicles his freshman and sophomore year at Samwell University, where he joins the school hockey team and falls for its very attractive but moody captain, Jack Zimmerman.
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I Am Alfonso Jones
by Tony Medina
The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store.
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Jonesy: Volume 3
by Sam Humphries
Jonesy, a teenager with the super power of love, tries to give up the match-making life, but when a mysterious stranger comes to town, she may be forced to use her powers.
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Kim Reaper: Grim Beginnings
by Sarah Graley
When university student Becka finally works up the courage to ask Kim, a part-time grim reaper, for a date, she accidentally falls into a ghostly portal, setting off a chain of events that forces them to work together against cat-dads and zombies.
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On a Sunbeam
by Tillie Walden
Interweaves the story of a crew traveling into deep space to rebuild beautiful, broken structures, with that of a pair of teen girls who meet at boarding school and fall deeply in love.
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Pashmina
by Nidhi Chanani
When Priyanka finds a mysterious pashmina in her house, she is transported to an India which may or may not be real, and goes in search of the reason why her mother left her homeland and the father she has never met.
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The Prince and the Dressmaker
by Jen Wang
The best-selling cartoonist of In Real Life presents a graphically illustrated fairy tale set in Paris at the dawn of the modern age, where a cross-dressing prince hides his identity as a popular fashion icon and falls for a brilliant dressmaker who knows his secret at the same time his royal parents begin searching for a traditional bride for him to marry.
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Sorry For My Familiar Vol. 1
by Tekka Yaguraba
When demon girl Patty is too weak to summon an animal familiar, she instead chooses the human Norman Volcanello, an eccentric guy who has a dangerous fascination with exotic life forms, and the pair set out to find her missing father.
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Speak: The Graphic Novel
by Laurie Halse Anderson
Adapted by the author and featuring artwork by an Eisner Award winner, a graphic novel edition of the award-winning novel follows the experiences of a girl who is rendered an outcast for her role in breaking up an end-of-summer party during which she was raped by a popular boy.
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Spill Zone
by Scott Westerfeld
When a disaster destroys her city, ends her parents' lives and leaves her sister badly scarred, Addison earns money by taking photographs of the devastation for high-paying art collectors, including an eccentric patron who offers a million dollars for a life-risking image.
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Wires and Nerve Volume 1
by Marissa Meyer
A first graphic novel by the best-selling author finds beloved Lunar Chronicles android Iko embarking on a dangerous and romantic new adventure with a little help from Cinder and the Lunar team.
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The Witch Boy
by Molly Ostertag
When a boy goes missing during a night of shapeshifting, thirteen-year-old Astor risks going against family tradition by using his magic to help locate him.
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