Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your library. The following middle grade and YA graphic novels were published in 2025.
Browsing: graphic novel
Follow three children through three different time periods as each sets out in search of refuge in Alan Gratz’s Refugee: The Graphic Novel.
A middle-schooler writes herself a fake love letter in hopes of fitting in with new friends in Dear Jackie, a graphic novel by Jessixa Bagley and Aaron Bagley.
A private detective finds herself at a ski resort where the snow melts at night and reappears in the morning in The Mystery of the Melting Snow.
A rescued little axolotl learns about friendship and nature conservation in Max, a Little Axolotl a graphic novel by Joey Spiotto.
A girl and her newly blended family set out for a wilderness adventure in Diary of a Nature Nerd, a graphic novel by Tiffany Everett.
Hulk Teach! by Jeffrey Brown is a really funny and interesting story.
Lauren Tarshis’s bestselling I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011 is now a graphic novel with text adapted by Georgia Ball and art by Chris Chalk.
Rambunctious brothers are up to all sorts of mischief in Sharks & Minnows, the second book in the Link + Hud series by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey.
Kids love animals and graphic novels. So, what better way than to get them excited about reading than a book about horseback riding and a book about pet-sitting.