Queer YA Fantasy & Sci-Fi Graphic Novels

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Experience the joy of being queer where anything is possible with these queer sci-fi and fantasy graphic novels for teens. Witches, werewolves, aliens, mermaids, superheroes, knights, spaceships, castles, magic, and much more await you!

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Across A Field of Starlight

Across A Field of Starlight

Blue Delliquanti

Lu and Fassen are from different worlds and separate solar systems, so when the war of Fassen’s world invades Lu’s peaceful home, they find themselves at the forefront of a battle they hoped would never happen.

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Cosmoknights

Cosmoknights

Book One

Hannah Templer

Pan’s best friend and first love Tara is a princess, meant to be the prize in an interplanetary jousting ring of mecha fighters. Tara enlists Pan to help her escape this fate, and Pan lives a lonely life until she meets a ring of off-world gladiators dedicated disrupting the patriarchal games.

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Galaxy

Galaxy

The Prettiest Star

Jadzia Axelrod

Taylor Barzelay has the perfect life. Good looks, good grades, a starting position on the basketball team, a loving family, even an adorable corgi. But every day is torture. Taylor is actually the Galaxy Crowned, an alien princess from the planet Cyandii, and one of the few survivors of an intergalactic war.

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The Girl From the Sea

The Girl From the Sea

Molly Knox Ostertag

Fifteen-year-old Morgan can’t wait to escape the island where she lives until she is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named Keltie and suddenly life on the island doesn’t seem so stifling anymore. But as the girls become friends and then start to fall in love, the secrets they’re each trying to hide will find their way to the surface.

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I Am Not Starfire

I Am Not Starfire

Mariko Tamaki

Seventeen-year-old Mandy, who dyes her hair black and hates almost everyone, is not like her mother, the tall, sparkly alien superhero Starfire, so when someone from Starfire’s past arrives, Mandy must make a choice about who she is and if she should risk everything to save her mom.

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Mooncakes

Mooncakes

Suzanne Walker

Nova Huang knows much more about magic than your average teen witch. She works at her grandmother’s bookshop, where she helps loan out spell books and investigate supernatural occurrences in their New England town.

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On A Sunbeam

On A Sunbeam

Tillie Walden

A ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together. Two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love–only to learn the pain of loss.

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Other Ever Afters

Other Ever Afters

New Queer Fairy Tales

Melanie Gillman

In this new feminist, queer fairy tale collection, the princesses, mermaids, barmaids, children, and wise old women who have been forced to sit on the sidelines in classic stories take center stage to fulfill their own dreams and find the love, power, and happiness they deserve.

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Squad

Squad

Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Becca moves to an upscale Silicon Valley suburb and is surprised when she develops a bond with girls who belong to the popular clique-and even more surprised when she learns their secrets.

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The Witch Boy

The Witch Boy

Molly Knox Ostertag

In thirteen-year-old Aster’s family, all the girls are raised to be witches while boys grow up to be shapeshifters, and anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn’t shifted–and he’s fascinated by witchery, no matter how forbidden it might be.

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Wynd

Wynd

Book One, The Flight of the Prince

James Tynion IV & Michael Dialynas

Wynd is forced to leave his home behind to embark on a dangerous quest that will put him at the heart of a royal conspiracy beyond imagination. On the run with the boy of his dreams, his best friend Oakley, and a literal prince, Wynd will have to embrace the magic within himself if he wants to save them from the shocking dangers that await!

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