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