Category: Graphic Novel

Curse of the Bizarro Beetle by Julie Gardner Berry


Title: Curse of the Bizarro Beetle (Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys, #2)

Author: Julie Gardner Berry

Illustrator: Sally Faye Gardner

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Release Date: August 12, 2010

ISBN: 978-0448453606

Size: 208 pages, 5×7, softcover

Genre: Middle Grade Graphic Novel

Series: The Rat Brain Fiasco

This book is not eligible for a Whitney Award.

With Cody’s archnemesis, Headmaster Farley, banished from the school, Cody should be celebrating . . . but something is bothering him, eating at him . . . literally gnawing on him. Dark forces are on the rise at Splurch Academy and Cody Mack isn’t sure which side of the battle he’s on.

Learn more about the Splurch Academy HERE.

The Rat Brain Fiasco by Julie Gardner Berry


Title: The Rat Brain Fiasco (Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys, #1)

Author: Julie Gardner Berry

Illustrator: Sally Faye Gardner

Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

Release Date: August 12, 2010

ISBN: 978-0448453590

Size: 208 pages, 5×7, softcover

Genre: Middle Grade Graphic Novel

This book is not eligible for a Whitney Award.

When Cody Mack is called to the principal’s office yet again, he finds something far worse than detention awaiting him: Splurch Academy, a frightfully sinister boarding school for disobedient children run by a group of monstrous teachers. Can Cody Mack avoid becoming “Midnight Snack?”

Learn more about the Splurch Academy HERE.

Calamity Jack by Shannon & Dean Hale


Title: Calamity Jack

Author: Shannon Hale and Dean Hale

Illustrator: Nathan Hale

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books

Release Date: January 5, 2010

ISBN: 978-1599900766

Size: 144 pages, 8×11, hardcover

Genre: YA; Graphic Novel

Series: Rapunzel’s Revenge

This book is not eligible for a Whitney Award.

Jack likes to think of himself as a criminal mastermind…with an unfortunate amount of bad luck. A schemer, plotter, planner, trickster, swindler…maybe even thief? One fine day Jack picks a target a little more giant than the usual, and one little bean turns into a great big building-destroying beanstalk.

With help from Rapunzel (and her trusty braids), a pixie from Jack’s past, and a man with inventions from the future, they just might out-swindle the evil giants and put his beloved city back in the hands of good people ….while catapulting themselves and readers into another fantastical adventure.

Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale

Title: Rapunzel’s Revenge

Author: Shannon and Dean Hale

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books

Release Date: August 5, 2008

ISBN: 978-1599900704

Size: 144 pages, hardcover

Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade

Once upon a time, in a land you only think you know, lived a little girl and her mother . . . or the woman she thought was her mother.

Every day, when the little girl played in her pretty garden, she grew more curious about what lay on the other side of the garden wall . . . a rather enormous garden wall.

And every year, as she grew older, things seemed weirder and weirder, until the day she finally climbed to the top of the wall and looked over into the mines and desert beyond.

Newbery Honor-winning author Shannon Hale teams up with husband Dean Hale and brilliant artist Nathan Hale (no relation) to bring readers a swashbuckling and hilarious twist on the classic story as you’ve never seen it before. Watch as Rapunzel and her amazing hair team up with Jack (of beanstalk fame) to gallop around the wild and western landscape, changing lives, righting wrongs, and bringing joy to every soul they encounter.