The Midwinter Witch by Molly Knox Ostertag

The Midwinter Witch by Molly Knox Ostertag

Aster always looks forward to the Midwinter Festival, a reunion of the entire Vanissen family that includes competitions in witchery and shape-shifting. This year, he’s especially excited to compete in the annual Jolrun tournament as a witch. He’s determined to show everyone that he’s proud of who he is and what he’s learned, but he knows it won’t be easy to defy tradition. Ariel has darker things on her mind than the Festival-like the mysterious witch who’s been visiting her dreams, claiming to know the truth about Ariel’s past. She appreciates everything the… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Parental abandonment discussed
  • Death of a mother recounted
  • Bullying
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Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter

Liz Buxbaum has always known that Wes Bennett was not boyfriend material. You would think that her next-door neighbour would be a prince candidate for her romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only proven himself to be a pain in the butt, ever since they were little. Wes was the kid who put a frog in her Barbie Dreamhouse, the monster who hid a lawn gnome’s severed head in her little homemade neighbourhood book exchange. Flash forward ten years from the Great Gnome Decapitation. It’s Liz’s senior year… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Smoking
  • Emesis
  • Grief & loss depiction
  • Death of a mother in a car accident mentioned
  • Bullying
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The Ravens by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige

The Ravens by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige

Kappa Rho Nu isn’t your average sorority. Their parties are notorious. Their fundraisers are known for being Westerly College’s most elaborate affairs. But beneath the veil of Greek life and prestige, the sisters of Kappu Rho Nu share a secret: they’re a coven of witches. Kappa Rho Nu isn’t your average sorority. Their parties are notorious. Their fundraisers are known being Westerly College’s most elaborate affairs. But beneath the veil of Greek life and prestige, the sisters of Kappu Rho Nu share a secret: they’re a coven of… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Queermisia
  • Emesis
  • Bullying
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Starcrossed by Barbara Dee

Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee

Mattie, a star student and passionate reader, is delighted when her English teacher announces the eighth grade will be staging Romeo and Juliet. And she is even more excited when, after a series of events, she finds herself playing Romeo, opposite Gemma Braithwaite’s Juliet. Gemma, the new girl at school, is brilliant, pretty, outgoing—and if all that wasn’t enough: British. As the cast prepares for opening night, Mattie finds herself growing increasingly attracted to Gemma and confused, since, just days before, she had found herself crushing on a boy named Elijah… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Queerphobia
  • Emesis
  • Bullying

Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody

Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody

Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school—and her reputation—behind to follow her mother’s trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted. Frightened and alone, Enne has only one lead: the name Levi Glaisyer. Unfortunately, Levi is not the gentleman she expected—he’s a street lord and a con man. Levi is also only one payment away from cleaning up a rapidly unravelling investment scam, so he doesn’t have time to investigate… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Paedophilia
  • Gambling & mentions of past substance addiction
  • Blood & injury depiction including burns
  • Death of a mother
  • Death of a friend in a fire
  • Murder & regicide (on-page)
  • Torture
  • Physical assault
  • Poisoning
  • Bullying

About a Boy by Nick Hornby

About a Boy by Nick Hornby

Too cool! At thirty-six, he’s as hip as a teenager. He’s single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He’s also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents’ groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy. Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will – and won’t let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicide
  • Recreational drug use
  • Bullying
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364 Days a Year by Sarah Riad

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. 

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Suicide
  • Bullying
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Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein

Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein

The past seven years have been hard on Avery Abrams: After training her entire life to make the Olympic gymnastics team, a disastrous performance ended her athletic career for good. Her best friend and teammate, Jasmine, went on to become an Olympic champion, then committed the ultimate betrayal by marrying their emotionally abusive coach, Dimitri. Now, reeling from a breakup with her football star boyfriend, Avery returns to her Massachusetts hometown, where new coach Ryan asks her to help him train a promising young gymnast with Olympic… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Child sexual abuse mentioned
  • Emotional abuse
  • Bullying
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Our Dreams at Dusk by Yuhki Kamatani

Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare, Vol. 3 by Yuhki Kamatani

When Tasuku attends a workshop organized by Cat Clutter, the last person he is expecting to see there shows up: his crush, Tsubaki! Is this the beginning of a dream come true?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Homomisia & homomisic slurs
  • Bullying
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Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan

Zara Hossain Is Here by Sabina Khan

Seventeen-year-old Pakistani immigrant, Zara Hossain, has been leading a fairly typical life in Corpus Christi, Texas since her family moved there for her father to work as a pediatrician. While dealing with the Islamophobia that she faces at school, Zara has to lay low, trying not to stir up any trouble and jeopardize their family’s dependent visa status while they await their green card approval, which has been in process for almost nine years… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

  • Bimisia
  • Homomisia
  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Islamomisia
  • Hospital
  • Gun violence
  • Bullying
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