Bullying & Hazing – Page 12 – Trigger Warning Database

Tryst Six Venom by Penelope Douglas

Clay: Marymount girls are good girls. We’re chaste, we’re untouched, and even if we weren’t, no one would know, because we keep our mouths shut. Not that I have anything to share anyway. I never let guys go too far. I’m behaved. Beautiful, smart, talented, popular, my skirt’s always pressed, and I never have a hair out of place. I own the hallways, walking tall on Monday and dropping to my knees like the good Catholic girl I am on Sunday. That’s me. Always in control. Or so they think. The truth is that it’s easy for me to resist them, because what I truly want, they can never be. Something soft and smooth. Someone dangerous and wild…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homomisia & internalized homomisia
Fatmisia & body shaming
Intimate partner violence mentioned
Revenge porn*
Staff-student relationship*
Parental infidelity mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Smoking mentioned
Abortion mentioned
Emesis
Death of a mother from suicide recounted
Death of a father from a heart attack recounted
Death of a brother from leukaemia
Bullying

*Context : The protagonist filmed a secondary character during a sexual experience and uploaded the video to the internet. A school employee has a ‘consensual ‘ sexual relationship with an underage student.

We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button. Only he isn’t sure he wants to. After all, life hasn’t been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer’s. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend’s suicide last year…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homomisia & slurs
Outing
Sexual assault & attempted rape
Alcoholism
Grandparent with Alzheimer’s Disease
Self-harm mentioned
Smoking mentioned
Miscarriage
Nonconsensual medical procedures and experimentation
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a boyfriend from suicide recounted
Bullying & cyberbullying

The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Raúf

There used to be an empty chair at the back of my class, but now a new boy called Ahmet is sitting in it. He’s eight years old (just like me), but he’s very strange. He never talks and never smiles and doesn’t like sweets – not even lemon sherbets, which are my favorite! But the truth is, Ahmet really isn’t very strange at all. He’s a refugee who’s run away from a War. A real one. With bombs and fires and bullies that hurt people. And the more I find out about him, the more I want to be his friend. That’s where my best friends Josie, Michael and Tom come in. Because you see, together we’ve come up with a plan.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Death of a sister mentioned
Death of a parent in a car accident mentioned
Bombing raid mentioned
Physical assault
Exile mentioned
Bullying
Death of a pet cat mentioned

ChupaCarter and the Haunted Piñata by George Lopez with Ryan Calejo and illustrated by Santy Gutiérrez

New kid Jorge is shocked to learn that his beastly friend Carter isn’t the only legendary creature in Boca falls. Every few years, the town is terrorized by a haunted . . . piñata ? Rumor has it that the petrifying party decoration floats around setting eerie fires to avenge a long-ago betrayal. Jorge can’t help but laugh, until a rash of green fires forces the townspeople to consider moving away, including the parents of his pals Ernie and Liza! With Carter at their side, the three friends are in a race against time to catch the real culprit before they’re separated forever . . . or the whole town is set aflame. Which will come first?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Minor blood depiction
Minor weapon violence (num chucks, dart gun)
Bullying mentioned

364 Days a Year by Sarah Riad

For most people, March 29th is just another day. For me, it’s the day I wake as someone new. A different face and different hands, a body that’s not my own. And like every year, I’m only certain of three things. It’s my seventeenth birthday. I have no way of stopping this cycle.
And I’ll die again in 364 days. This year, I’m Effy Garcia.
Something is different. Something I can’t yet place. Since the year 1909, I have lived in 108 bodies and I have died 108 times. Could this life be my last?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Suicide
Bullying

Funny Feelings by Tarah Dewitt

Farley Jones is a loud, chaotic, and hilariously clever standup comedian on the way to stardom. The only thing she loves more than the rush of telling jokes in front of a revved-up audience is her hot older manager Meyer, though he doesn’t have a clue. Keeping her feelings hidden from him is agony (a tragedy, even―in lieu of flowers, please send cash…) but Meyer has been Farley’s closest and most treasured friend, not to mention vital to the trajectory of her career. She can’t risk ruining their relationship by telling him how she truly feels. After all, who else would have the patience to put up with a hot mess like her? A form… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Death of a secondary character from childbirth complications recounted
Death of a parent recounted
Physical assault
Ableist bullying mentioned

This Time It’s Real by Ann Liang

When seventeen-year-old Eliza Lin’s essay about meeting the love of her life unexpectedly goes viral, her entire life changes overnight. Now she has the approval of her classmates at her new international school in Beijing, a career-launching internship opportunity at her favorite magazine…and a massive secret to keep.

Eliza made her essay up. She’s never been in a relationship before, let alone in love. All good writing is lying, right?.. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism
Hospitalisation for physical injury recounted
Bullying

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds your fate inside: the answer to the exact number of years you will live. From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise? As society comes together and pull apart, everyone faces the same shocking choice…

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism
Suicide
Grief & loss depiction
Death of both parents in a car accident
Bombing
Workplace mass shooting
Bullying

After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez

Guapo pobrecito her grandmother calls him. The “poor handsome man.” Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra “Alex” Torres turning Loretta’s, her grandmother’s bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family’s admiration; she won’t let him have the bar and building she needs to resurrect her career, too. Alex blowing into town has rocked Jeremiah to his mild-mannered core, but the large, boisterous Torres clan is everything he never had. He doesn’t believe Alex has the… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Misogyny
Racism, on-page
Emotional & verbal parental abuse
Familial estrangement
Parent in recovery for alcoholism
Alcohol consumption
Abortion mentioned
Death of a grandfather recounted
Bullying recounted
Animal cruelty mentioned

Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Chandler Cohen has never felt more like the ghost in “ghostwriter” until she attends a signing for a book she wrote—and the author doesn’t even recognize her. The evening turns more promising when she meets a charming man at the bar and immediately connects with him. But when all their sexual tension culminates in a spectacularly awkward hookup, she decides this is one night better off forgotten… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Antisemitism mentioned
Emotional child abuse recounted
Anxiety
Panic attack, on-page
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Abortion recounted
Bullying recounted