The Snips: A Bad Buzz Day by Raúl the Third, inked by Elenora Bruni and Elaine Bay (Little, Brown Ink, 128 pages, grades 2-5). The Snips are a superhero quintet from Scissors City, who not only give the best haircuts, but also use their powers to create such technology as barber-pole jet packs and and drone barber bots. When the Bad Buzz Boys come to town, threatening to destroy one of the Snips’s record for most haircuts given in one day, our heroes spring into action to save the day. The Bad Buzz Boys are racing through town, randomly giving terrible haircuts, and the Snips are able to not only stop them, but to repair the damage and to remind everyone that working together and valuing community are much more important than setting records. Includes additional information about barber poles, the real-life record holder for haircuts given in a day, and directions for drawing one of the Snips.

Those familiar with Raúl the Third’s zany, high-energy comic art will be thrilled to hear that he has a new graphic novel, which appears to be a series opener. Dog Man fans will enjoy a new set of superheroes, and those that speak Spanish–or aspire to learn–will find plenty of it (with translations) interspersed throughout the text.

Operation: Cover-Up by Tate Godwin (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 192 pages, grades 3-6). New Leaf Elementary has two new kids in the fifth grade: Sy always has a joke to tell, while Nick enjoys sharing his wealth of knowledge and advanced vocabulary. A series of mishaps results in Sy being seen as the braniac and Nick getting the label of class clown. Both try to be who they think their classmates want them to be, and when they meet and realize what’s happened, they decide to help each other keep the cover-up going. A new friend named Violet, who’s a secret comic artist, helps them see the importance of being themselves, and a school talent show allows all three to share their real talents with the rest of their classmates. A sequel, Operation: Make a Splash is promised on the last page.

Share this fun and clever graphic novel with fans of Mr. Wolf’s Class. Readers are sure to get a laugh from Sy and Nick’s mishaps and subsequent bumbling efforts to cover up the truth about themselves and will learn a good lesson or two about being true to yourself.