Teen Boat #[nn]

The tagline says it all — "The Angst of Being a Teen, The Thrill of Being a Boat!" — and Dave Roman and John Green's Teen Boat! delivers exactly that delightful premise right from the cover. A confident, smiling blond teen stands hands-on-hips in open water, framed by a life preserver ring, with the silhouette of a boat's hull visible beneath the waterline where his legs should be. Published by Houghton Mifflin in 2012, this all-ages graphic novel promises a wonderfully absurd blend of adolescent identity crisis and nautical adventure that's hard to resist.