Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Séance Tea Party begins with Lora, a lost young person somewhere between girlhood and womanhood. Growing up looms large throughout the graphic novel… as much as anything looms in this gentle, joyful, sometimes heartbreaking story. Lora feels alone with her friends moving on to things like slick magazinesRead More
Til reviews The Stone Child by David A. Robertson
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link The Stone Child is book 3 in the Misewa Saga, following foster siblings Eli and Morgan, who discover that they can travel to another dimension when they put Eli’s drawings on a wall in their foster-home’s attic. Here, in Misewa, they meet animals who wear clothes and live inRead More
Danika reviews Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Melanie Gillman is one of my favourite artists. I even support them on Patreon–which I highly recommend, because you get to read their travel diary comics and sometimes you get little zine-style comics in the mail. You might remember their YA graphic novels, As the Crow Flies andRead More
Til reviews The Lock-Eater by Zack Loran Clark
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link The Lock-Eater tells the story of Melanie Gate, an orphan sent on an adventure with a gearling in a land of power-hungry wizards, invisible unicorns, humanoid animals, true friends, and cute seamstresses. This is a book that feels very aware of its adherence to the typical—the author definitely knowsRead More
Til reviews Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Artie and the Wolf Moon is a graphic novel about middle schooler Artie, a budding photographer who discovers that her mom is a werewolf. Artie is a lonely kid. She’s one of the few students of color at her school, and she’s bullied by some of her classmates.Read More
Danika reviews The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link This is a quiet, almost slice-of-life graphic novel about a 13-year-old queer Chinese American girl’s life at a logging camp. Mei is the daughter of the camp cook, and she helps out in the kitchen and spends her free time spinning yarns for the other children in camp–especiallyRead More
Danika reviews The Girl from the Sea by Molly Ostertag
Way back in 2016, I wrote a post for Book Riot called 5 Lesbian Mermaid Comics You Need to Read where I rounded up sapphic mermaid and selkie comics. There were far too few than I would like, but I was able to find a three page comic story from Molly Ostertag on tumblr aboutRead More
Danika reviews Goldie Vance: The Hocus Pocus Hoax by Lilliam Rivera
I already know and love the Goldie Vance comics, but now it is also a middle grade novel series! The premise is that Goldie Vance is a sixteen year old girl who works as a part-time valet, part-time detective at a resort her father manages. She is the assistant to the hotel’s detective–which is apparentlyRead More
Carmella reviews Love Frankie by Jacqueline Wilson
Jacqueline Wilson was one of my favourite authors growing up. Something about her battalions of weird, bookish, tomboy protagonists and their intense friendships with other girls really appealed to me. Looking back on her extensive oeuvre as a fully-realised lesbian adult, I began to see what that connection may have been, and I always wishedRead More
Danika reviews Kenzie Kickstarts a Team (The Derby Daredevils #1) by Kit Rosewater, illustrated by Sophie Escabasse
The Derby Daredevils is a middle grade series following a junior roller derby team, with an #ownvoices queer main character. Now, if you’re like me, you’ve already clicked away to order a copy or request it from your library. And that would be the correct response. I am jubilated that we are finally at theRead More