Great Graphic Novels for Teens Winners
Click the book titles below to read more about each 2009 award-winning book.
The list presents graphic novels published in the past 16 months that are recommended reading for teens aged twelve to eighteen.
- 10 Things I Hate About You, by Touchstone Home Video
- Action Philosophers: Giant-Sized Thing (V.1), by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey
- Agatha Heterodyne and the Circus of Dreams: Girl Genius (V. 4), by Phil Foglio and Kaja Foglio
- Antique Bakery (V. 2), by Fumi Yoshinaga
- Antique Bakery (V. 3), by Fumi Yoshinaga
- Antique Bakery (V. 4), by Fumi Yoshinaga
- As Real as Your Life, by All Game Productions
- Baby Sitter's Club: Kristy's Great Idea, by Ann M. Martin and Raina Telgemeier
- Banana Sunday, by Root Nibot and Colleen Coover
- Bend It Like Beckham, by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Billy the Kid's Old-Timey Oddities, by John Porcellino
- Cantarella (V. 1), by Higuri You
- Castle Waiting, by Linda Medley
- Catwoman: When in Rome, by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale
- Chocolat (V. 1), by Ji-Sang Shin and Geo
- Chocolat (V. 2), by Ji-Sang Shin and Geo
- Chocolat (V. 3), by Ji-Sang Shin and Geo
- Death Note (V. 1, 2, and 3), by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata
- Demo: The Collection, by Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan
- Devil's Playground, by Wellspring Media
- Dogtown and Z-Boys, by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
- Dramacon, by Svetlana Chmakova
- Emily Edison (V. 1), by David Hopkins and Brock Rizy
- Escape to New York: Runaways(V. 5), by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona
- Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall, by Bill Willingham and Todd Klein
- Family Matters: Young Avengers (V. 2), by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung
- Flight (V. 3), and Stuart Immonen
- Girl Stories, by Lauren R. Weinstein
- Herr Dr. Tenma: Naoki Urasawa's Monster (V. 1), by Naoki Urasawa
- House of M, by Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipel
- Identity Crisis, by Brad Meltzer and Rags Morales
- Inverloch (V. 1), by Sarah Ellerton
- Invisible Children: Rough Cut, by Invisible Children, Inc.
- Iron West, by Doug TenNapel
- Journey Into Mohawk Country, by H.W. Van den Bogaert and George O'Connor
- Juno, by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Light Brigade, by Peter Tomasi and Peter Snejbjerg
- Livewires: Clockwork Thugs, Yo!, by Adam Warren and Rick Mays
- Love.Com, by Viz Pictures
- Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels, by Scott McCloud
- Miyazaki's Spirited Away, by Walt Disney Home Entertainment
- Moped Army, by Paul Sizer
- Nana (V. 1), by Ai Yazawa
- Nana (V. 2), by Ai Yazawa
- Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.(V. 1), by Warren Ellis and Stuart Immonen
- Night Fisher, by R. Kikuo Johnson
- Off Road, by Sean Murphy
- Off*Beat (V.1), by Jen Lee Quick
- Osama, by MGM Home Entertainment
- Parental Guidance: Runaways (V. 6), by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona
- Perfect Example, by John Porcellino
- Persepolis, by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Pride of Baghdad, by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon
- Psy-Comm (V. 1), by Jason Henderson and Tony Salvaggio
- Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea, by Guy Delisle
- Rubber Bandits: Plastic Man (V. 2), by Kyle Baker
- Shadya, by National Film Board of Canada
- Sidekicks: Young Avengers (V. 1), by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung
- Sloth, by Gilbert Hernandez and Jared K. Fletcher
- Sorcerers and Secretaries (V. 1), by Amy Kim Ganter
- Star Wars: Tag and Bink Were Here, by Kevin Rubio and Lucas Marangon
- Superbad, by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Tag: Ex Machina (V. 2), by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris
- The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Cohen
- The Boys of Baraka, by Loki Films
- The Case of Madeleine Smith: Treasury of Victorian Murder (V. 8), by Rick Geary
- The Heart of the Game, by Miramax
- The Making of a Graphic Novel: The Resonator, by Prentis Rollins
- The Trade Paperback Imperative: The Middleman (V. 1), by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Les McClaine
- Top Ten: the Forty-Niners, by Alan Moore and Gene Ha
- Trailers, by Mark Kneece and Julie Collins-Rousseau
- True Believers: Runaways (V. 4), by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona
- Ultimate Iron Man (V. 1), by Orson Scott Card and Andy Kupert
- Whale Rider, by . Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
- X-23: Innocence Lost, by Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost