Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Monstress #1)

The story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers.

Recommended by Rashaa Al-Sasah, Uxbridge Free Public Library Youth Services.