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Comics & Graphic Novels Historical Young Adult Books

Books selected for readers looking for comics & graphic novels historical young adult fiction books.

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1. Renegade Girls (a Graphic Novel)
Nora Neus, Julie Robine
Fits this list for its focus on graphic and historical.
2. Saints
Gene Luen Yang, Lark Pien
Fits this list for its focus on graphic and novels.
3. Codex Black (book Two): Bird of Ill Omen
Camilo Moncada Lozano, Angel De Santiago
Fits this list for its focus on adult and young.
4. Ichiro: a Graphic Novel
Ryan Inzana
Fits this list for its focus on adult and graphic.
5. Ends/begins
David Alexander Robertson, Scott B. Henderson
Fits this list for its focus on adult and fiction.
6. Boxers
Gene Luen Yang, Lark Pien
Fits this list for its focus on graphic and novels.
7. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Anaïs Flogny
Fits this list for its focus on adult and graphic.
8. Displacement
Kiku Hughes
Fits this list for its focus on graphic and historical.
9. Codex Black (book One): a Fire Among Clouds
Camilo Moncada Lozano, Angel De Santiago
Fits this list for its focus on young.
10. Indiginerds
Alina Pete, Kameron White
Fits this list for its focus on graphic and novels.
11. Silenced Voices
Pablo Leon
Fits this list for its focus on historical.
12. Superman Smashes the Klan
Gene Luen Yang, Gurihiru
Fits this list for its focus on adult and young.
13. Tall Water
SJ Sindu, Dion MBD
Fits this list for its focus on graphic.
14. Ghost Boys: the Graphic Novel
Jewell Parker Rhodes, Setor Fiadzigbey
Fits this list for its focus on graphic.
15. Armaveni
Nadine Takvorian
Fits this list for its focus on graphic.
16. Lost in Taiwan (a Graphic Novel)
Mark Crilley
Fits this list for its focus on graphic.
17. Odessa
Jonathan Hill
Fits this list for its focus on graphic.
18. Song of a Blackbird
Maria van Lieshout
Included for strong historical alignment with this comics & graphic novels historical young adult fiction list.
19. The Blue Road
Wayde Compton, April dela Noche Milne
Fits this list for its focus on graphic.
20. Between Shades of Gray
Andrew Donkin, Ruta Sepetys
Fits this list for its focus on graphic.
21. Boxers & Saints Boxed Set
Gene Luen Yang, Lark Pien
Fits this list for its focus on comics.

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