Not graphic novels, but illustrated and fun:

* McBroom's Wonderful One Acre Farm
* Mooses with Bazookas
* Fabled Stables series by Jonathan Auxier

Not very illustrated, but just good stories that girls that age love:

* Tuesdays at the Castle series
* Heartwood Hotel series

Babymouse and lunchlady

Second Zita the Space Girl

Anonymous wrote:Graphic novels are not the same quality as actual books. It's all pictures and simple blurbs of words. Why not try The Secret Garden, some Anne of Green Gables, The Little Prince, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, etc.

Some graphic novels are great. Some are not. Just like some novels are great and some are not.

For graphic novels I recommend:

* Zita the Spacegirl
* Marcia Williams books that retell things like Shakespeare and various culture's myths in comic book format
* Straight up comic books like Calvin & Hobbes (if you look you might be surprised at how high level the vocabulary and concepts actually are)

For novels for a 7 year old:

* Mercy Watson (heavily illustrated) and the follow on older kid series Tales from Deckawoo Drive
* Anna Hibiscus series and the Too Small Tola series by the same author
* Dodsworth series (again heavily illustrated)
* Henry and Mudge and Annie and Snowball series and basically any other beginning reader by Cynthia Rylant (don't be fooled by how short they are, the vocabulary is pretty complex). My kids were specially fans of High Rise Private Eyes.
* Frog and Toad and any other Arnold Loebel - classics for a reason
* Jenny and the Cat Club
* Hank the Cowdog
* Boxcar Children - there are a million of them and the repetitive nature can be really useful for kids
* Encyclopedia Brown
* Catwings series (not too often that you get an early chapter book by one of the greatest authors of our time!)
* The Poppy series by Avi
* Ronia the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lindgren

Also don't overlook the value of really high quality longer picture books for this age. Often the concepts in those stories are more advanced than those in early reader novels. There's a mix of heavily illustrated chapter books and longer picture books recommended in this thread: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/15/1028712.page

Zita the Spacegirl

Another vote for El Deafo

Graphic novels are not the same quality as actual books. It's all pictures and simple blurbs of words. Why not try The Secret Garden, some Anne of Green Gables, The Little Prince, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, etc.

Yes, El Deafo is good

Yes, El Deafo is good

There are graphic novel versions of the babysitters club, I think. My daughter liked those. My son is a big dogman fan and has also read the Cat Kid Comic Book Club books by the same author. We also picked up a series called Max Meow when we saw the author at the Gaithersburg book festival. Pretty good as well.

There’s a new graphic novel of The Lemonade Wars, about a brother/sister lemonade stand competition. If you think your family might want to do a lemonade stand (for charity, if not for yourself), this would be a good one.

Junie B Jones
Dory Fantasmagory (my 5th grader still loves re-reading these because they are so funny).

Download the libby app and add your library card. There are so many options and she can have them in seconds.

El Deafo is one of the best graphic novels my DC ever read. There also seem to be an endless supply Big Nate books.

Lunch Lady series by Jarrett Krosoczka
Squish: Super Amoeba series by Jennifer L Holm
Ricky Ricotta series by Dav Pilkey
Dragonbreath series by Ursula Vernon
Chronicles of Claudette series by Jorge Aguirre

Hilo
Baby-Sitters Little Sister
I Survived
PAWS
Cat Kid

Looking for a new graphic novel series for my 7yo DD to keep her excited about reading over the summer. So far, she has loved Dog Man and Phoebe and the Unicorn so quite the spectrum. She reads non-graphic novels too (Zoe and Sassafras and Dragon Girls have been her favorites). Any recommendations? TIA!