This month was light on prose and heavy on manga, since I was working my way through a bunch of review copies.
Books
Bad Kitty by Michele Jaffe
Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
Manga
Emma #7
Gun Blaze West #1
Good Witch of the West #5
B.O.D.Y. #1
Blood Alone #4
ES (Eternal Sabbath) #8
Queen’s Knight #10
Nana #10
Yurara #4
Honey and Clover #1
White Night Melody #1
Tea […]

Yet another young adult novel is going to be turned into manga, as seen in this cover image:

Books
Down the Rabbit Hole by Peter Abrahams - Very readable mystery story, probably best for the pre-YA reader.
Lulu Dark Can See Through Walls by Bennett Madison - YA mystery involving mistaken identity, a missing handbag, and romance.
The Fall of the Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman - I thought I hadn’t read this book […]

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Swinging for the Fences: Hank Aaron and Me by Mike Leonetti and David Kim (amazon)
Swinging for the Fences is story of a young fan and baseball player named Mark watching closely as his idol Hank Aaron attempts to break the home run record. Mark gradually learns how to improve his own baseball game as he […]

If you’ve got some manga you don’t want anymore, you can always give it away, but you might want to try swapping it too. One list that I’ve used for a long time to swap manga is manga trade, but there are a couple new sites I’ve used recently that have also come in handy […]

Kaput and Zosky by Lewis Trondheim (amazon)
Kaput and Zosky is a thoroughly delightful comic book for young people about inept space invaders. Kaput and Zosky travel from planet to planet looking for a world to rule but they never seem to manage to pull it off. They land on a planet where the […]

Books
Rouge Male by Geoffrey Household - I did not realize that a book about a man hiding in a hole in the ground would be so suspenseful.
Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig - There was not as much swashbuckling in this book as I was used to from the previous volumes in this […]

Here’s the list of winners.
The Professor’s Daughter and Artemis Fowl won the graphic novel category.

Books
Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart - This book might be good for fans of Ellen Raskin and Lemony Snickett.
Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik
The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
Manga and Graphic Novels
Haunted House by Mitsukazu Mihara
Hikkatsu! Strike a Blow to Vivify by Yu Yagami
Love Com #2 by Aya Nakahara
Zig Zag #1 by Yuki […]