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2025 OYAN Graphic Rave list for teens

The annual Oregon Young Adult Network (OYAN) Graphic Rave is a list of the best graphic novels, manga, comics, and graphic memoir with young adult appeal published in the previous year, as nominated and chosen by library workers across Oregon who provide services for middle and high school-aged youth. These were the best graphic novels we read for teens between March 2024 and April 2025

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  • The only person who ever seemed to get Ash was their Grandpa. Before he died, he used to talk about building a secret cabin. Did he ever build it? What if it's still there, waiting for him to come back...or for Ash to find it? To Ash, that cabin is…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : First Second, 2024.
  • High school senior Magdalena Herrera has adult responsibilities and a deadly secret hidden in the dark of the basement, one that drains her of energy and leaves her bleeding- -until the return of her childhood friend Nessa forces her to face her…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 2024.
  • This timely graphic novel weaves together two timelines to reveal how art, in the face of political upheaval and nearly insurmountable adversity, can become our greatest lifeline. A look at Amsterdam and the resistance during WW2.
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : First Second, 2025.
  • Dear Dad

    Growing Up With a Parent in Prison--and How We Stayed Connected : a Graphic Memoir

    Patton, Jay Jay,
    This powerful coming-of-age graphic novel memoir tells of Jay Jay Patton's life growing up with a dad in -- and out of -- prison.
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic ; [New York, New York] : Kaepernick Publishing, 2024.
  • When cynical, gothy Kay lets her mom talk her into joining the youth group at their church, she isn't prepared to walk in on the clean-cut youth group leaders, Meg and Cortland, in the middle of a real-deal exorcism.
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : First Second, [2024]
  • As high school student Jaime Reyes begins to realize he and his border community in El Paso, Texas, are being used as pawns in the immigration debate, he finds an odd bug-like artifact and begins feeling different.
    Graphic Novel, 2024Burbank, CA : DC Comics, 2024.
  • Dick Grayson’s life is crumbling around him thanks to Heartless, a villain who seems to want nothing more than to sabotage Nightwing’s existence! Forced out of his home, Dick must re-learn exactly what makes him who he is.
    Graphic Novel, 2025Burbank, CA : DC Comics, [2025]
  • Around the Spider-verse

    An Original Graphic Novel Collection

    Take a trip around the Spider-Verse: The tour guide on his field trip has Miles Morales's Spidey Sense tingling. Gwen Stacy's punk band's concert is interrupted by the Jackal. Anya Corazâon must save her father from a trap laid by Kraven the Hunter…
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press, 2025.
  • A tender graphic novel thar delves into the heart of a best friendship and explores what it means to grow up without growing apart.
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : HarperAlley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, ; [2025]
  • Secrets hide behind every corner of the castle walls in this exciting graphic novel that follows the budding romance between a lady-in-waiting and an enchanted suit of armor.
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press, 2024.
  • A historically inspired, joyfully queer, stunningly romantic graphic novel where two friends discover their feelings for each other and find a space in their world for their love and identity.
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.
  • While their flying horse recovers from injury, a novice ranger travels by foot on a journey of self-discovery and gender exploration alongside a musical companion who shares their growing affections.
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : Random House Graphic, 2025.
  • Jane is incredibly plain. Everyone says so. Determined to get some semblance of independence, Jane prepares to propose to Peter, who might just say yes to get away from his father. It’s would’ve been a good plan, if he wasn’t kidnapped by a mermaid.
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, 2024.
  • A vivid, sweeping, ultimately hopeful story about navigating your heritage even when you feel like you don’t quite fit in.
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : Versify, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]
  • Aya loves listening to rock, but no one else seems to share her interest…until she meets a cool, stylish employee at a CD shop. He has this air of mystery about him, and Aya falls hard for him—not knowing her crush is actually her female classmate…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : Yen Press, 2024.
  • Destroy All Humans

    They Can't Be Regenerated. 1

    Ise, Katsura,
    It’s the nineties at Tokiwagi Middle School. And for gamers like Hajime Kano, after the release of Magic: The Gathering, nothing will ever be the same again!
    Graphic Novel, 2024San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, 2024.
  • Known as the Weakest Hunter of All Mankind, Erank hunter Jinwoo Sung’s contribution to raids amount to trying not to get killed. Unfortunately, between his mother’s hospital bills, his sister’s tuition, and his own lack of job prospects, he has no…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : Ize Press, 2024.
  • Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, everybody is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life. Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath just can’t let go…
    Graphic Novel, 2024San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, LLC, [2024]
  • In a world not quite ready for her ambition, a determined girl seeks knighthood and finds herself on a mission to prove it.
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York : RH Graphic, [2024]