Cover of Psychic Investigators, Evil Exterminators, showing a boy with a flashlight creeping down a dark hallway. The boy has big eyes and looks scared. Behind him is a laughing girl, and behind her, a pink hand reaches from the darkness, with red eyes peering between the fingers.

In the present day we’re breaking the information of a brand new middle-grade graphic novel from Prime Shelf: Psychic Investigators, Evil Exterminators, by debut creator KT Healey that, mixes supernatural shenanigans with a deeper story about studying to return to phrases with loss. Within the writer’s phrases, “Psychic Investigators, Evil Exterminators makes use of high-energy cartooning and a lightweight contact to tenderly discover how children cope, even educating grown-ups that those that are half as tall could be twice as clever.” Right here’s what it’s about:

Gabriel Navarro can see ghosts. A minimum of, that’s what he’s all the time believed, however after his beloved tía dies, he can’t appear to achieve her. Feeling alone and misplaced, he stumbles right into a mysterious encounter on a faculty subject journey and all of a sudden finds himself the brand new greatest buddy and enterprise associate of his eccentric classmate Clementine.

Collectively, they type Psychic Investigators, Evil Exterminators—Rustin Center College’s first ghost-hunting group! Their mission assertion? To show as soon as and for all that Gabe is a psychic and ghosts are actual. However first, they’ll want to really discover some ghosts…which, regardless of Clem’s flawless marketing strategy, just isn’t simple. For Clem, the search is the joys of a lifetime, however for Gabe, it hits just a little nearer to house. Can they maintain their partnership collectively lengthy sufficient to make an actual connection to the world past?

The guide is rated for ages 9-12 and might be launched on September 16, 2025, however we’ve obtained a pattern to get you began proper now. Get pleasure from!

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About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson, the editor of the Good Comics for Children weblog, has been studying comics since she was 4. She has an MFA in printmaking and has labored as a guide editor, a newspaper reporter, and assistant to the mayor of a small metropolis. Along with modifying GC4K, she is a daily columnist for SLJ, a contributing editor at ICv2, an editor at Smash Pages, and a author for Publishers Weekly. Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters. She was a choose for the 2012 Eisner Awards.