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Winterborne Home for Mayhem and Mystery by Ally Carter

Winterborne Home for Mayhem and Mystery by Ally Carter

April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne—famous billionaire and terrible cook—is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don’t know is that he’s not the only one.

When a masked figure breaks in, looking for… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abandonment, recounted & discussed (on-page)
Drugging
Blood depiction
Physical injuries including gunshot wounds, stab wounds, and a sprained ankle
Death of a mother & father recounted
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Sword violence & stabbing
Fire, on-page & recounted
Boating accident recounted
Explosion
Home invasion
Kidnapping & attempted kidnapping
Disappearance & presumed death of a loved one
Experiences in orphanages, group homes, and foster care discussed including child abuse & neglect

Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor by Ally Carter

Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor by Ally Carter

When 11-year-old April joins a group of kids living at Winterborne Home she doesn’t expect to be there for very long. But she soon learns that this home isn’t like any of the others – especially when she unearths the secret of the missing-and-presumed-dead billionaire, Gabriel Winterborne, who is neither missing nor dead but is actually living in a basement lair, sharpening his swords and looking for vengeance… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental abandonment
Child abuse recounted
Serious physical injury
Death of a parent
Murder & attempted murder
Knife & sword violence
Gun violence
Home invasion
Bullying

The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier

The Night Gardener follows two abandoned Irish siblings who travel to work as servants at a creepy, crumbling English manor house. But the house and its family are not quite what they seem. Soon the children are confronted by a mysterious spectre and an ancient curse that threatens their very lives. With Auxier’s exquisite command of language, The Night Gardener is a mesmerizing read and a classic in the making.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Ableism
Death of a parent recounted
Shipwreck recounted

Hearts in the Hard Ground by GV Anderson

Hearts in the Hard Ground by G.V. Anderson

Following the death of her mother, Fiona buys a new house in order to start a new chapter of her life, one with fewer reminders of painful memories. Unbeknownst to Fiona, this house has a melancholy history, and slightly more ghosts than she anticipated. In learning to live with her unexpected companions and their losses, Fiona might find a way to make peace with her own.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Death of a mother recounted

Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert

Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert

Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she’s always known—that there’s more to her mother than meets the eye.

Dana has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best frie… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & gore depiction
Animal abuse & torture
Animal death

Eva Evergreen and the Cursed Witch by Julie Abe

Eva Evergreen and the Cursed Witch by Julie Abe

Eva Evergreen has fulfilled her dream of earning the rank of Novice Witch, and discovered the chilling truth behind the mysterious Culling — the violent magical storm wreaking havoc across Rivelle Realm.

Revealing the truth, however, proves to be a difficult task and soon the culprit is at large. To make matters worse Eva learns what might be the horrible truth behind her pinch of magic and her mother’s own mysterious con… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sinkhole, on-page
Flooding
Sandstorm mentioned
Kidnapping
Disappearance of a mother mentioned

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding an ancient lamp that has the power to revive the barren land—at the cost of sacrificing all jinn.

With no choice but to obey or be executed, Loulie journeys with the sultan’s oldest son to find the artif.… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a parent
Genocide
Torture
Kidnapping

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune by Roselle Lim

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck & Fortune by Roselle Lim

At the news of her mother’s death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn’t spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighbourhood of San Francisco’s Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. She’s even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother’s restaurant… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Agoraphobia
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a parent
Fire

Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim

Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim

Ever since she can remember, Vanessa Yu has been able to see people’s fortunes at the bottom of their teacups. To avoid blurting out their fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the ones of those around her. To add to this plight, her romance life is so nonexistent that her parents enlist the services of a matchmaking expert from Shanghai.

The day before her matchmaking appoin… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Gambling addiction mentioned
Migraines

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The story grew out of a map that led to imaginary treasure, devised during a holiday in Scotland by Stevenson and his nephew. The tale is told by an adventurous boy, Jim Hawkins, who gets hold of a treasure map and sets off with an adult crew in search of the buried treasure. Among the crew, however, is the treacherous Long John Silver who is determined to keep the treasure for himself.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Hostage situation