Recent Graphic Novel Deals, Late October and November 2023 | News

• Badge Quest, by Guy Kopsombut, a series about a bear training to be a knight and a shape-shifting fairy, Andrews McMeel, begins Fall 2025
• The Ballad of X-Ray and Koko, by Nicole J. Georges, a girl and her pet chicken seek the place she belongs, Holiday House, Fall 2026
• Bookworms, by Breena Bard, students working at the library as reading tutors work to solve the mystery of a ghost, Little, Brown Ink, 2026
• Brainbow, by Maya Henderson, a girl with synesthesia deals with school competitions and making friends, Little, Brown Ink, Fall 2026
• Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad, by Joseph P. Illidge and Marcus Kwame Anderson, adaptation of the biography by Ann Petry, HarperAlley, Winter 2026
• I’m Going Through Something, by Hans Lindahl and Chan Chau, in which a teen artist never goes through puberty, Scholastic, Summer 2027
• Lyra and the Lighthouse, by Maria Fröhlich, a lonely girl makes friends with a lighthouse ghost, Feiwel and Friends, 2027
• Mia and Friends, by Karlin Gray and Micheline Hess, about Mia Hamm and her 1999 World Cup teammates, First Second, Fall 2024
• Queens of the Crypt, by Dom&Ink, the title characters, the world’s protectors, show up when teens go missing in a small town, Penguin Workshop, Summer 2026
• Somewhere in the Gray, by Michelle Jing Chan, the girlfriend of the school’s most popular girl realizes her asexuality, FSG, Fall 2026
• The Westgrave Files, by Bowen McCurdy, a series described as Goosebumps meets Stranger Things, about tweens finding weird things at school clubs, First Second, begins Spring 2026

Source: Publishers Weekly Rights Report, October 16, October 23, October 30, November 6, November 13, November 20, and November 27

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