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Graphic novels are booming in popularity. It’s changing children’s relationship with books

Books Discussed

Raised By Ghosts by Briana Loewinsohn

Brielle and Bear: Volume 1 Salomey Doku

Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries

Huda F Wants to Know? By Huda Fahmy

Renegade Girls: A Queer Tale of Romance and Rabble-Rousing by Nora Neus, illustrated by Julie Robine

Fable at the End of the World by Ava Reid

Juniper and Thorn by Ava Reid

The Wolf and the Woodsman by Ava Reid

A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi

Legend series by Marie Lu

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

The Fever King series by Victoria Lee

Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Steifvater

An Ember in the Ashes series by Sabaa Tahir

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