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Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she’s afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she’s not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol’s cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can’t prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Classism
Forced sex work
Child abuse
Substance addiction
Trauma & nightmares
Alcohol consumption & abuse
Blood & gore depiction
Graphic physical injuries, including burns
Needles
Starvation & dehydration
Emesis (off-page)
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a child recounted
Death of a father & husband recounted
Death of a friend (on-page)
Murder & attempted murder
Knife violence and stabbing
Gun violence
Explosions
Drowning
Whipping mentioned
Blackmail
War & rebellion themes, including riots
Animal death
Hunting
Poverty themes

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling

Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter is lucky to reach the age of thirteen, since he has survived the murderous attacks of the feared Dark Lord on more than one occasion. His hopes for a quiet school term concentrating on Quidditch are dashed, though, when a maniacal mass-murderer escapes from Azkaban, pursued by the soul-sucking Dementors who guard the prison. It’s assumed that Hogwarts is the safest place for Harry to be. But is it his imagination that is making him feel eyes watching him in the dark, and should he be taking Professor Trelawney’s ghoulish predictions seriously?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Fatmisia & body shaming
Classism
Racism & racial slurs
Child abuse & neglect
Suicide mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Blood depiction & physical injuries
Grief & depiction
Death of a mother & father mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Explosion recounted
Imprisonment & wrongful incarceration
Animal attack
Animal death & dead bodies
Bullying

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling

Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter can’t wait for his holidays with the dire Dursleys to end. But a small, self-punishing house-elf warns Harry of mortal danger awaiting him at Hogwarts. Returning to the castle nevertheless, Harry hears a rumour about a Chamber of Secrets, holding unknown horrors for wizards of Muggle parentage. Now someone is casting spells that turn people to stone, and a terrible warning is found painted on the wall. The chief suspect – always in the wrong place – is Harry. But something much more terrifying has yet to be unleashed.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Fatmisia & body shaming
Classism
Racism & racial slurs
Slavery
Child abuse & neglect
Blood depiction & physical injuries
Beheading discussed
Infirmary
Emesis
Death of a mother & father mentioned
Attempted murder
Car accident
Loss of autonomy (possession)
Animal attack
Animal illness (pet cat)
Animal death & dead bodies
Bullying

If you choose to support this novel or author, please reconsider. You can read about the harmful cultural appropriation here, about how she is endangering trans people here, and donate to the queer Indigenous charity Black Rainbow here.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling

Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he’s the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord’s curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow survived. Leaving his unsympathetic aunt and uncle for Hogwarts, a wizarding school brimming with ghosts and enchantments, Harry stumbles upon a sinister mystery when he finds a three-headed dog guarding a room on the third floor. Then he hears of a missing stone with astonishing powers which could be valuable, dangerous – or both. An incredible adventure is about to begin!

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist language
Fatmisia & body shaming
Classism
Racism
Graphic emotional, verbal & physical child abuse
Child neglect
Nightmares
Self-sacrifice
Alcohol consumption
Minor blood depiction & physical injuries
Infirmary
Blood drinking
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a mother & father
Murder & attempted murder
Explosion
Car accident mentioned
Genocide and war themes recounted
Animal cruelty
Animal death
Bullying

If you choose to support this novel or author, please reconsider. You can read about the harmful cultural appropriation here, about how she is endangering trans people here, and donate to the queer Indigenous charity Black Rainbow here.

The Wolf in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky

The Wold in the Whale by Jordanna Max Brodsky

Born with the soul of a hunter and the spirit of the Wolf, Omat is destined to follow in her grandfather’s footsteps-invoking the spirits of the land, sea, and sky to protect her people.

But the gods have stopped listening and Omat’s family is starving. Alone at the edge of the world, hope is all they have left.

Desperate to save them, Omat journeys across the icy wastes, fighting for survival with every step. When she meets a Viking warrior and his strange new gods, they set in motion a conflict that could shatter her world…or save it.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Homomisia
Transmisia
Misogyny
Slavery
Domestic violence
Rape
Death of a child mentioned
Body horror
Graphic murder
Graphic animal death, including the death of a dog
Animal injury & illness

Only Daughter by Anna Snoekstra

Only Daughter by Anna Snoekstra

In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared. She’d been enjoying her teenage summer break but mysteriously ominous things began to happen—blood in the bed, periods of blackouts, a feeling of being watched—though Bec remained oblivious of what was to come.

Eleven years later she is replaced. A young woman, desperate after being arrested, claims to be the decade-missing Bec. But Bec’s welcoming family friends are not quite as they seem. As the imposter dodges the detective investigating her case, she begins to delve into the life of the real Bec Winter—and soon realizes that whoever took Bec is still at large, and that she is in imminent danger.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Self harm
Alcohol abuse
Blood depiction
Fire & bushfire
Disappearance of a loved one
Animal death
Animal cruelty

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

Vern – seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised – flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world.

But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future – outside the woods.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Misogyny
Ableism
Homomisia
Transmisia
Fatmisia & body shaming
Adult-minor relationship
Hallucinations
Suicide
Self harm
Alcohol consumption
Nonconsensual drugging
Forced sterilization
Teen pregnancy
Graphic childbirth
Blood & gore depiction
Burns
Death of a child & infant
Torture
Gun violence
Fire
Drowning
Poisoning
Cult
Graphic animal death

The Opposite of Innocent by Sonya Sones

The Opposite of Innocent by Sonya Sones

Luke has been away for two endless years, but he’s finally returning today. Lily was only twelve when he left. But now, at fourteen, she feels transformed. She can’t wait to see how Luke will react when he sees the new her. And when her mother tells her that Luke will be staying with them for a while, in the bedroom right next to hers, her heart nearly stops.

Having Luke back is better than Lily could have ever dreamed. His lingering looks set Lily on fire. Is she just imagining them? But then, when they’re alone, he kisses her. Then he kisses her again. Lily’s friends think anyone his age who wants to be with a fourteen-year-old must be really messed up. Maybe even dangerous. But Luke would never do anything to hurt her…would he?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Victim blaming
Paedophilia, grooming & child sexual abuse
Graphic rape by coercion (on-page)
Child abuse
Abusive relationship
Dissociation
Alcohol consumption, including forced alcohol consumption
Emesis
Death of a mother & father recounted
Death of a brother recounted
Stalking
Car accident recounted
Animal attack & death mentioned

Fire with Fire by Destiny Soria

Fire with Fire by Destiny Soria

Dani and Eden Rivera were both born to kill dragons, but the sisters couldn’t be more different. For Dani, dragon slaying takes a back seat to normal high school life, while Eden prioritizes training above everything else. Yet they both agree on one thing: it’s kill or be killed where dragons are concerned.

Until Dani comes face-to-face with one and forges a rare and magical bond with him. As she gets to know Nox, she realizes that everything she thought she knew about dragons is wrong. With Dani lost to the dragons, Eden turns to the mysterious and alluring sorcerers to help save her sister. Now on opposite sides of the conflict, the sisters will do whatever it takes to save the other. But the two are playing with magic that is more dangerous than they know, and there is another, more powerful enemy waiting for them both in the shadows.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Blood & gore depiction
Torture
Animal death

If the Birds Fly Back by Carlie Sorosiak

If the Birds Fly Back by Carlie Sorosiak

Linny has been fascinated by disappearances, ever since her sister Grace ran away in the middle of the night without saying goodbye.

Sebastian can tell you how many galaxies there are, and knows how much plutonium weighs. But the one thing he can’t figure out is the identity of his birth father.

They’ve never met, but Linny and Sebastian have one thing in common: an obsession with famous novelist and filmmaker Alvaro Herrera, who went missing three years ago and has just reappeared. As they learn more about the mystery of Alvaro, Linny and Sebastian uncover the answers they’ve been searching for.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist language
Parental abandonment
Alzheimer’s Disease
Suicidal ideation
Alcohol consumption
Recreational drug use
Physical injury (fall)
Hospitalisation
Grief depiction
Death of a father
Disappearance of a sister
Death of a pet
Animal illness