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In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family. The magic is in the way the art creates a world that is as alien for the reader as it is for the man in the book, so that we feel what it's like to arrive in a world we don't understand.

In this city a number of superheroes mingle among the regular folk. This series of comics compiled into a book will appeal to many adolescent readers who will find this series engagingly written and drawn.

This book was originally written to counteract the grim news that emanates from the Ivory Coast - in doing so, the author manages to capture some of the universal themes of teenagers everywhere. This book is written in graphic format, so is an easy read for more reluctant readers - but it is intended for older students.

A graphic novel that draws on Sleeping Beauty and Chaucer to create a feminist, humourous nouveaux fairy tale accessible for junior high students but with layers that make it suitable for high school and adult readers.

Summer camp can bring with it lasting friendships - but can also mirror school and all the challenges that friendship there can bring. This graphic novel has Abby returning to camp for another summer - but the friendships from the past year are no longer there and she must learn to forge new ones - regardless of how others act.

Call it comic book or graphic novel, this is best suited for high school. Death, one of the characters in Gaiman’s popular ‘Sandman’ comics, comes for one day among the living the better to understand the lives of those she takes

Spiegelman tells the story of his father's surviving the holocaust and the effects on the lives of the following generation with chilling realism, and in an unusual comic-book format in which the Nazis are portrayed as cats hunting the Jewish mice. In his more recent book In the Shadow of No Towers Spiegelman who lives in Lower Manhatten, relives the day of the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

* The first of a series of high-quality graphic novels about the loved only child of the Minister of Meridian, who grows up with an entire floating city as her playground. But when her father dies,she ends up in a power struggle with her wicked uncle. Strong female heroine and the first of four books in the series.

Beautifully illustrated in comic-book size panels, this is an eminently readable version of this story. The author gives us a sense of who Captain Bligh was and why the mutiny happened.

A 1959 French classic about a mischievous schoolboy and his friends, finally translated into English this year. Upper elementary. In comic book format in French, there are similar schoolboy characters found in the series L'élève Ducobu by Zidron & Godi.

With a dusty lamp, Otto is able to turn everything in his world orange (his absolute favourite colour). However, after a few bad experiences (an orange lamb chop, an orange stoplight causing accidents), his Aunt Sally helps him hatch a plot to out-wit the genie and turn everything back to how it should be. Done in a graphic format, this will appeal to children in Grades 1 to 3 as an introduction to the graphic format.

The autobiography of a young girl who always wanted to dance -and the obstacles she had to overcome to get there. Presented in graphic novel format.

This story, told in both graphic and conventional format, is about Thelonious Chipmunk, a young chipmunk who believes in the existence of humans in a world where their existence is in legend only. His home (and him with it) is swept away during a rainstorm and he ends up in the City of Ruins, where he meets several companions, who help him find his way back home. The story is told in alternating chapters of prose and comic book format and is a nice alternative for those who are new to graphic novels - and those who are not sure about graphic novels as a format.

Mary Ann is the servant of the White Rabbit, so this book gives a unique new perspective on Wonderland and all of the characters in the original story, as well as introduces several new ones (How about Spade and Club?) This is an action-packed story in the Graphics novel format.