Independent Grade Level: 4th Grade
Awards: Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee – Graphic Novel Grades 4-6 – 2014)
CYBILS Awards (Winner – Elementary & Middle-Grade Graphic Novels – 2011)
Great Stone Face Book Award (Nominee – 2013)
Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee – Elementary – 2015)
Oregon Reader's Choice Award (Nominee – Upper Elementary School Division – 2014)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee – Grades 3-6 – 2014)
Sasquatch Book Award (Nominee – 2014)
South Dakota Children's Book Awards (Nominee – Prairie Pasque – 2014)
Texas Bluebonnet Award (Nominee – 2013)
Texas Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List (Selection – 2012)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee – Children's Fiction – 2014)

The charming side characters remind me of a Ghibli movie cast. Zita herself is incredible heroic and a great role model. Definitely more of a plot-oriented story, even Zita doesn’t have much of an inner world that we see. ( )

I lovelovelove these! I picked it up at the library hoping that my daughter would read it but I'm pretty sure I liked it more than she did. I look forward to adding them to my personal collection. ( )

Zita is so charming. She and a friend end up in another dimension and separated. Zita makes friends on this strange new world and she has to save the day.

Ben Hatke is clearly influenced by the likes of Jeff Smith (creator of Bone) and Bill Watterson (creator of Calvin and Hobbes).

Like Bone, Zita the Spacegirl will appeal to both children and those who are young at heart. ( )

3rd-6 grade independent reading level.