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General Recommendations
IndyPL Staff Picks 2025 - Best of Graphic Novels for Kids
Created on:
Nov 22, 2025
11 items
Graphic Novels for kids has been an explosive market for publishers as well as authors and cartoonists alike. Anyone with a ch...
4 likes
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"My Kid Wants to Read Wicked, What Do I Give Them?"
By:
IndyPL_TaylorVT
IndyPL_TaylorVT
Created on:
Oct 02, 2025
16 items
"Wicked: For Good" is coming to theaters on November 21st, the second part of the movie adaptation of the hit Broadwa...
6 likes
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Picture Books and Juvenile Nonfiction About Mental Health and Illness
By:
IndyPL_JaredW
IndyPL_JaredW
Created on:
Jul 21, 2025
20 items
Each year has a Mental Health Awareness Month and a Suicide Prevention Month, but mental health is important all year long! If ...
3 likes
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Mychal Threets Recommends
By:
IndyPL_TamiE
IndyPL_TamiE
Created on:
Jun 02, 2025
12 items
Mychal Threets is known around the library world for being a children's librarian who is all about "library joy". Th...
6 likes
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Fiction Featuring Type 1 Diabetics
Created on:
May 28, 2025
15 items
In the US alone there are an estimated 2 million people living with type 1 diabetes.
This list goes out to all the fellow type...
7 likes
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Mysteries, Puzzles, and Escape Rooms
By:
IndyPL_JaredW
IndyPL_JaredW
Created on:
Apr 23, 2025
20 items
If you love escape rooms and solving puzzles to figure out mysteries, then you should check out these books!
On this list, yo...
1 like
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Cosmic Chronicles: Out-of-This-World Alien Adventures for Kids
By:
IndyPL_RobinB
IndyPL_RobinB
Created on:
Apr 04, 2025
10 items
Aliens have fascinated young readers for generations, sparking curiosity about the unknown and the possibilities beyond our pla...
2 likes
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Black girls at magic school
By:
IndyPL_SarahS
IndyPL_SarahS
Created on:
Apr 04, 2025
11 items
I'm defining "school" somewhat loosely, but all of these girls have awesome powers, lessons to learn, and missions to...
3 likes
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"Beyond the Magic Treehouse: Enchanting Adventures for Young Explorers"
By:
IndyPL_RobinB
IndyPL_RobinB
Created on:
Apr 03, 2025
12 items
If your child loves Magic Tree House, they’re ready for more time-traveling, mystery-solving, and world-exploring adventures! T...
3 likes
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Best Graphic Novels Nonfiction for Middle Grades (ages 7-11) and Tweens (ages 10-13)
Created on:
Feb 18, 2025
13 items
2024 LIST
ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) is sharing the nominations for the 2024 Best Graphic Novels fo...
General Recommendations
Best Graphic Novels for Middle Grade Kids (7-11 Year olds)
Created on:
Feb 18, 2025
52 items
2024 Picks
ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) is sharing the nominations for the 2024 Best Graphic Novels fo...
General Recommendations
Best Graphic Novels for Tweens (10-13 year olds)
Created on:
Feb 18, 2025
24 items
2024 Picks
ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) is sharing the nominations for the 2024 Best Graphic Novels fo...
2 likes
General Recommendations
Best Graphic Novels for Young Readers (ages 3-8) and Easy Readers (ages 5-9)
Created on:
Feb 18, 2025
35 items
2024 Picks
ALA’s Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) is sharing the nominations for the 2024 Best Graphic Novels fo...
General Recommendations
We See You, We Hear You: Picture Books Featuring Immigrant and Refugee Stories
By:
IndyPL_JaredW
IndyPL_JaredW
Created on:
Feb 04, 2025
33 items
To those immigrants and refugees who live among us, I think I can speak for the majority of librarians when I say, we value you...
7 likes
General Recommendations
Squirmy worms
By:
IndyPL_SarahS
IndyPL_SarahS
Created on:
Jan 18, 2025
19 items
Spring is here, rain is falling, and that means the sidewalks are covered in WORMS! Don't squash our squishy friends, but do re...
2 likes
General Recommendations
Graphic Novel Crushes
By:
IndyPL_JenniferC
IndyPL_JenniferC
Created on:
Jan 13, 2025
11 items
Valentine's Day is getting closer. This is a list of graphic novels on crushes and love. #IndyPLKids
3 likes
If You Liked...
Dog Man
Created on:
Jan 13, 2025
21 items
Dav Pilkey has created a bunch of readers out there with not only Dog Man, but Captain Underpants and his Cat Kid Comic series....
7 likes
Top Picks
2024 in Fifteen Teen and Children's Titles
By:
IndyPL_ShaiS
IndyPL_ShaiS
Created on:
Jan 06, 2025
15 items
Here are my top reads for 2024 that are in the Young Adult and Children's collections at IndyPL. You'll find spooky schools, po...
4 likes
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Birds in Winter
By:
IndyPL_FaithZ
IndyPL_FaithZ
Created on:
Dec 04, 2024
19 items
National Bird Day takes place January 5th.
This marks the end of the Christmas Bird Count (December 14th to January 5th), an a...
5 likes
General Recommendations
IndyPL Staff Picks 2024 - Best of Graphic Novels for Kids
Created on:
Nov 21, 2024
12 items
Some of staff's favorite graphic novels they read and enjoyed.
#IndyPLKids
#IndyPLStaffPicks
3 likes
General Recommendations
Twins FTW!
By:
IndyPL_SarahS
IndyPL_SarahS
Created on:
Nov 12, 2024
25 items
A highly random smattering of novels and graphic novels published in the last few years featuring twins for National Twin Day. ...
1 like
Top Picks
Bears Bears Bears Bears
By:
IndyPL_ShaiS
IndyPL_ShaiS
Created on:
Sep 25, 2024
22 items
This is my fourth list featuring the humble grumbly family Ursidae. Please enjoy some of my favorite books featuring bears.
Tw...
3 likes
General Recommendations
Sweet Treats for Middle Grade Readers
Created on:
Aug 15, 2024
17 items
I have always loved being creative, and one of my most successful outlets is baking. Like the characters in these books, baking...
2 likes
General Recommendations
Making and Keeping Friends
By:
IndyPL_FloS
IndyPL_FloS
Created on:
Jun 01, 2024
21 items
Whether you're the new kid in school or just shy, lots of kids struggle with making new friends. These books cover the challeng...
4 likes
General Recommendations
Lost Pets and the Enduring Human-Animal Bond
Created on:
May 21, 2024
14 items
Our neighbors at FACE created a list of some children's books they have read with their families or friends about pets who get ...
2 likes
