Tag Archives: Animal Hunting

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of animal hunting.

See also Animal death, especially for the death of a pet or animal companion.

Stranded by Nikki Shannon Smith

Eleven-year-old Ava Adams is looking for something different. The tall Manhattan buildings around her feel like walls closing in. And what if she doesn’t fit in with her city-loving friends or busybody family who think Black folks “don’t do nature?” But in a twist of fate, Ava is shocked to learn that her parents are actually allowing her to stay with her Aunt Raven in the Adirondacks for the summer. In her Auntie’s simple cabin, living off the land with nature’s beauty filling her senses, the woods feel more like home than Manhattan. As Summer comes to a close and Aunt… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Physical injuries & illness, including fever from an infected tick bite
  • Animal death & hunting with a bow & arrow mentioned (coyote, rabbit, dogs, on- & off-page)
  • Snowstorm & lightning strike, resulting in property damage

The Sacrifice by Rin Chupeco

Pristine beaches, lush greenery, and perfect weather, the island of Kisapmata would be the vacation destination…if not for the curse. The Philippine locals speak of it in hushed voices and refuse to step foot on the island. They know the lives it has claimed. They won’t be next. A Hollywood film crew won’t be dissuaded. Legend claims a Dreamer god sleeps, waiting to grant unimaginable powers in exchange for eight sacrifices. The producers are determined to document the evidence. And they convince Alon, a local teen, to be their guide. Within minutes of… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Racism
  • Domestic violence mentioned
  • Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
  • Death of a parent recounted
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Plane crash mentioned
  • Colonialization & gentrification
  • Animal death mentioned (dog)
  • Animal hunting mentioned

Against a Wall by Cate C. Wells

My high school bully is now my fake boyfriend. Cash Wall has been messing with me since junior high. Nuisance stuff, mostly. Name calling. Pranks. Honestly, he’s nowhere near the worst of my problems. Back in school, I had bigger fish to fry, and now, I’ve got a “scarlet letter” situation going on. The whole town hates me. For some reason, Cash offers himself up as my knight in shining armor. So now my former bully is my fake boyfriend. What could possibly go wrong? Cash: Glenna Dobbs thinks I’m an idiot, and she’s mostly right. I hunt. Fish. Go mudding. I’m not a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatphobia & body shaming
  • Workplace sexual harassment & dubious consent scenario
  • Cheating mentioned
  • Emotionally abusive relationships recounted
  • Anxiety & insomnia
  • Alcohol consumption and drug use, including vaping & cigar smoking
  • Physical injury (gunshot wound)
  • Emesis mentioned
  • Parent with agina
  • Death of a mother from a heart attack recounted
  • Death of a grandparent mentioned
  • Murder of an uncle
  • Physical assault
  • Police corruption
  • Hunting & death of a pet dog mentioned
  • Bullying

Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray

Magic doesn’t exist in the broken city of Lkossa anymore, especially for girls like sixteen-year-old Koffi. Indentured to the notorious Night Zoo, she cares for its fearsome and magical creatures to pay off her family’s debts and secure their eventual freedom. But the night her loved ones’ own safety is threatened by the Zoo’s cruel master, Koffi unleashes a power she doesn’t fully understand—and the consequences are dire. As the second son of a decorated hero, Ekon is all but destined to become a Son of the Six—an elite warrior—and uphold a family legacy. But on the night of his… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Sexism
  • Indentured servitude
  • Anxiety & panic attacks
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
  • Drugging & drug use (on-page)
  • Blood & gore depiction, including dead bodies
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder mentioned
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Poisoning
  • Fire
  • Animal death & abuse

Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang

Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasn’t like other people. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy Christmas day in Oklahoma, he realized just how different he actually was. That tornado was the first of many strange events that seem to follow Weylyn from town to town, although he doesn’t like to take credit. As amazing as these powers may appear, they tend to manifest themselves at inopportune times and places. From freak storms to trees that appear to grow over night… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Alcoholism
  • Death of a parent
  • Death of a spouse
  • Gun violence
  • Animal death & hunting
  • Animal attack
  • Bullying

Extra Witchy by Ann Aguirre

After two failed marriages, Leanne Vanderpol is here for a good time, not for a long time. She only loves the witches in her coven, and she cares more about her career than happily ever after. A difficult past makes her skittish, and she doesn’t trust relationships to stick. But when she decides to run for city council instead of wasting her talents cleaning up messes for the mayor’s office, she fears her past could be used against her. Unless she can find the right husband to shore up her political career. Trevor Montgomery might have peaked in high school. He was popular then, and in college as well, but he partied away his future, met… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Child neglect recounted
  • Divorce recounted
  • Depression & anxiety
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Abortion discussed
  • Death of a parent in a hospital (on-page)
  • Animal death & hunting mentioned

The Hike by Lucy Clarke

Maggie, Liz, Helena & Joni. Old friends bound by history, adventures, old secrets. And now, bound by murder. They lace up their hiking boots for the adventure of a lifetime in the Norwegian wilderness: a place of towering mountains, glass-like lakes, log cabins and forests stolen from a fairytale. It’s the perfect place to lose yourself – until a broken body is found at the bottom of a ravine. Somewhere out there, someone knows exactly why a woman has died. And in this deep, dark wilderness, there’s a killer on the trail . . .

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Infidelity
  • Substance addiction & drug abuse
  • Unplanned pregnancy
  • Cancer mentioned
  • Death of a parent
  • Landside
  • Animal hunting

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Rape (on-page)
  • Graphic animal death

Kimmi: Queen of the Dingoes by Favel Parrett

Kimmi sleeps with her mama at her back, her aunty at her front and her three brothers squeezed in beside her. They are a family. But when the farmer who took her father returns to threaten the rest of them, Kimmi is separated from her mama. In an incredible act of determination, Kimmi’s mama runs over mountain tops and dusty red earth to spend one last day with her cub and share with her the knowledge that will one day make her a queen. This is Kimmi’s story, the story of how she became Queen of the Dingoes in a sanctuary that saves them from extinction. It is her mama’s story, too. But mostly it is a story that goes… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Murder of a brother/dingo cub by a hunter (on-page)
  • Animal death & hunting (on-page)
  • Animal injury including loss of ear (on-page)

The Tiger Rising by Kate DiCamillo

Walking through the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger—a real-life, very large tiger—pacing back and forth in a cage. What’s more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things—like memories, and heartaches, and tigers—can’t be locked up forever.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Abandonment & physical child abuse
  • Smoking mentioned
  • Gun violence
  • Animal death & hunting
  • Bullying

Context : The protagonist’s father shoots a bird. Mentions of a child being beaten by their father for freeing a pet bird.