Bowler Hat Comics and Three Muses Press are participating in this year’s Teen Read Week, a national adolescent literary initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).

Bowler Hat Comics’ 2008 titles are “books with a bite”—this year’s reading theme for Teen Reading Week. They include Visibility, an illustrated novel by up-and-coming author Sarah Neufeld, and Kid Beowulf and the Blood-Bound Oath, the first in a graphic novel series by Classics-loving cartoonist, Alexis E. Fajardo.

Three Muses Press is set to release two Books with a Bite this coming May, just in time for a Teen Read Year. Stay tuned for Morgan’s Pasture, by Wallace J. Swenson, a coming-of-age story set in 1950s rural America, and Desiderata, by Judy Ferro, a historical novel set in the eighth-century court of Charlemagne. These books and their authors will entice young readers into a world of superhuman charm, history, and heroism. Here’s to a great Teen Read Week!