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A Drop of Night by Stefan Bachmann

A Drop of Night by Stefan Bachmann

Seventeen-year-old Anouk has finally caught the break she’s been looking for—she’s been selected out of hundreds of other candidates to fly to France and help with the excavation of a vast, underground palace buried a hundred feet below the suburbs of Paris. Built in the 1780’s to hide an aristocratic family and a mad duke during the French Revolution, the palace has lain hidden and forgotten ever since. Anouk, along with several other gifted teenagers, will be the first to set foot in it in over two centuries. Or so she thought.

But nothing is as it seems, and the teens soon find themselves embroiled in a game far more sinister, and dangerous, than they could possibly have imagined. An evil spanning centuries is waiting for them in the depths.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist language
Classism
Emotional child abuse
Parental abandonment
Hallucinations & delusions mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Nonconsensual drugging
Blood & gore depiction
Physical injury
Dead bodies
Human experimentation
Needles
Hospital
Decapitation
Emesis
Death of a mother
Death of a child
Death of a wife
Murder & attempted murder
Gun violence
Stabbing
Explosions
Physical assault
Torture & sensory deprivation
Kidnapping & captivity
Car accident
Plane crash mentioned
Bullying

Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour

There’s nothing like a Black salesman on a mission.

An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother’s home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of Sumwun… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism & white supremacy
Murder
Bullying

Seagulls Don’t Eat Pickles by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Seagulls Don’t Eat Pickles by Kali Fajardo-Anstine

When bully Bryce Billings bets Fish Finelli that he can’t find Captain Kidd’s legendary long-lost treasure, Fish and his friends embark on a quest to find real-life pirate treasure. Between sneaking into the library to track down Captain Kidd’s map, stowing away on a boat, and trespassing on an island, Fish and his friends have their work cut out for them. But will Fish actually be able to find Captain Kidd’s booty and win the bet?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Bullying

The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout

When seventeen-year-old Evie Dasher is caught up in a raid at a notorious club known as one of the few places where humans and the surviving Luxen can mingle freely, she meets Luc, an unnaturally beautiful guy she initially assumes is a Luxen…but he is in fact something much more powerful. Her growing attraction for Luc will lead her deeper and deeper into a world she’d only heard about, a world where everything she thought she knew will be turned on its head…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Blood depiction
Death of a child
Kidnapping
Bullying

Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson

Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson and illustrated by Emily Carroll

“Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say.”

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless–an outcast–because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. Through her work on an art project, she is finally able to face what really happened that night: She was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Racism
Rape
Sexual assault
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Self harm
Alcohol consumption
Bullying

Michigan vs. the Boys by Carrie S. Allen

Michigan vs. the Boys by Carrie S. Allen

Michigan Manning lives for hockey, and this is her year to shine. That is, until she gets some crushing news: budget cuts will keep the girls’ hockey team off the ice this year.

If she wants colleges to notice her, Michigan has to find a way to play. Luckily, there’s still one team left in town …

The boys’ team isn’t exactly welcoming, but Michigan’s prepared to prove herself. She plays some of the best hockey of her life, in fact, all while putting up with changing in the broom closet, constant trash talk and “harmless” pranks that always seem to target her… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism
Lesbomisic slurs
Misogyny
Attempted rape
Alcohol consumption
Drugging
Dieting discussed
Bullying

The New David Espinoza by Fred Aceves

The New David Espinoza by Fred Aceves

David Espinoza is tired of being messed with. When a video of him getting knocked down by a bully’s slap goes viral at the end of junior year, David vows to use the summer to bulk up— do what it takes to become a man—and wow everyone when school starts again the fall.

Soon David is spending all his time and money at Iron Life, a nearby gym that’s full of bodybuilders. Frustrated with his slow progress, his life eventually becomes all about his muscle gains. As it says on the Iron Life wall, What does not kill me makes me stronger... Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Body & muscle dysmorphia (theme)
Drug use and steroid abuse
Bullying

George and Johnny by Savanna Ganucheau

George and Johnny by Savanna Ganucheau

Comics about two unlikely friends, George and Johnny.

Stayed tuned for bad jokes, high school, sleepovers, bands, romance, burgers, and tiramisu. Not necessarily in that order…

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism
Fatmisia
Alcohol consumption
Bullying

All in by Simona Ahrnstedt

All in by Simona Ahrnstedt

In the cutthroat world of Sweden’s financial elite, no one knows that better than corporate raider David Hammar. Ruthless. Notorious. Unstoppable. He’s out to hijack the ultimate prize: Investum. After years of planning, all the players are in place; he needs just one member of the aristocratic owning family on his side Natalia De la Grip.
Elegant, brilliant, driven, Natalia is curious about David s unexpected invitation to lunch. Everyone knows that he is rich, dangerous, and unethical. But she soon discovers he is also deeply scarred.

The attraction between these two is impossible, but the long Swedish nights unfold an affair that will bring to light shocking secrets, and force both Natalia and David to confront their innermost fears and desires.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Ableism & ableist slurs
Racism & racial slurs
Antiziganism
Classism
Slut shaming
Intimate partner abuse
Emotional parent abuse
Alcohol consumption
Scars
Bullying & hazing recounted
Animal abuse mentioned

I Am Out with Lanterns by Emily Gale

I Am Out with Lanterns by Emily Gale

One of us is in the dark.
One of us is a bully.
One of us wants to be understood.
One of us loves a girl who loves another.
One of us remembers the past as if it just happened.
One of us believes they’ve drawn the future.
But we’re all on the same map, looking for the same thing.

Year Ten begins with a jolt for best friends and neighbours Wren and Milo. Along with Hari, Juliet, Ben and Adie, they tell a story of friendship, family, wild crushes, bitter feuds, and the power of a portrait. As their lives interwine, images could bring them together, and tear them apart.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Domestic violence
Bullying