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Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki

Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass

Paperback – Illustrated, September 3, 2019

Mariko Tamaki, Steve Pugh, Carlos M. Mangual

DC Comics · Paperback · September 3, 2019

Mulitple Eisner Award Nominee, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass features the outspoken, rebellious, and eccentric fifteen-year-old Harleen Quinzel.

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Who it’s for
A graphic novel for when you want capes, teen edge, and a queer coming-of-age angle.
Genres
YA Superhero Comics, YA LGBTQ+ Comics, YA Coming-of-Age Comics
Published
DC Comics, September 3, 2019

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About this book

Mulitple Eisner Award Nominee, Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass features the outspoken, rebellious, and eccentric fifteen-year-old Harleen Quinzel. With five dollars to her name, she's sent to live in Gotham City after battling a lot of hard situations as a kid. But everything changes when Gotham's finest drag queen, Mama, takes her in. And at first it seems like Harleen has finally found a place to grow into her most "true true," with new best friend Ivy at Gotham High.

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But then Harley's fortune takes another turn when Mama's drag cabaret becomes the next victim in the wave of gentrification that's taking over the neighborhood. Now Harleen is mad. In turning her anger into action, she is faced with two choices: join Ivy, who's campaigning to make the neighborhood a better place to live, or join The Joker, who plans to take down Gotham one corporation at a time. From Eisner Award and Caldecott Honor-winning author Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer) and Eisner Award-nominated artist Steve Pugh (The Flintstones) comes a coming-of-age story about choices, consequences, and how a weird kid from Gotham goes about defining her world for herself.

Why It Clicks

A graphic novel for when you want capes, teen edge, and a queer coming-of-age angle.

Come here for

  • Harley Quinn in graphic-novel form
  • YA superhero / coming-of-age / LGBT shelf overlap

Expect

  • Illustrated, paperback format
  • Sustained, category-friendly read

Where it sits

YA Coming-of-Age Comics97%
YA Superhero Comics55%
YA LGBTQ+ Comics53%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • YA Superhero Comics
  • YA Coming-of-Age Comics
  • YA LGBTQ+ Comics
Authors
Mariko Tamaki, Steve Pugh, Carlos M. Mangual
Publisher
DC Comics
Published
September 3, 2019
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
YA Superhero Comics