I Am Princess X, Cherie Priest
Graphic novel hybrid/Mystery
May and Libby were best friends. Starting in fifth grade, they devoted all of their free time to Princess X: a character they created one day on the playground. May would come up with the story and Libby would draw the pictures, and by the end of junior high they’d filled dozens of notebooks and shoeboxes and grocery bags with the story of Princess X.
And then Libby died. Late one night, driving home over a bridge. The car crashed and sunk, and Libby drowned.
At least that’s what everybody said.
Three years later, May still doesn’t really believe that Libby is dead. And one day, she sees a sticker with a picture of Princess X in a shop window in downtown Seattle. She starts seeing those stickers everywhere, with a link on the back to iamprincessx.com. And that website? It’s exactly the same Princess X that May and Libby used to draw. Nobody else knew about Princess X. The author has to be Libby – which means Libby is alive. And May has to find her.
Similar titles: Try another graphic hybrid like Chasing Shadows (Swati Avasthi) or The Year of the Beasts (Cecil Castellucci)