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Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso

Little Creeping Things by Chelsea Ichaso

When she was a child, Cassidy Pratt accidentally started a fire that killed her neighbor. She’s pretty sure she didn’t mean to do it, and she’d give anything to forget that awful day. But her town’s bullies, particularly the cruel and beautiful Melody Davenport, have never let her live it down. In Melody’s eyes, Cassidy is a murderer and always will be.

Then Melody goes missing, and Cassidy thinks she may have information about what happened. She knows she should go to the cops, but she recently joked about how much she’d like to get rid of Melody… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Alleged sexual harassment
Suicidal ideation
Death of a friend & neighbour recounted
Fire recounted
Bullying

Hollow by Rhonda Parrish

A car accident shattered sixteen-year-old Morgan’s family. Now her brother’s dead, her mom’s paralyzed in more ways than one, her dad lives at work and her seven-year-old sister Amy tries too freaking hard to salvage everything. What’s more, high school is its own special kind of hell, where her ex-boyfriend delights in spreading rumors that shred her reputation and make her feel like a loser. When she finds an old camera in a creepy abandoned hospital, it seems like her luck is finally changing. And it is changing–from bad to worse. Because of course it is. Each time… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape & sexual assault (on- & off-page)
Parent with paralysis & depression
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a brother in a car accident
Bullying & slut-shaming

Context : The protagonist’s mother is dealing with depression after being paralysed in the same car accident which killed her son (the protagonist’s brother).

Here Lie the Secrets by Emma Young

Here Lie the Secrets by Emma Young

Mia’s best friend Holly died when they were thirteen. But years later, Holly still hasn’t left her.

Spending the summer in New York, Mia is hoping to escape the visions of Holly that haunt her life at home. There she meets Rav, a parapsychology student, who convinces her to take part in a study into why some people see ghosts. Soon she is caught up in the investigation of Halcyon House, which is reputed to be haunted by a poltergeist. As Mia confronts her fears, what she learns about the house and herself will change her life forever.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Domestic abuse & violence
Child abuse
Alcoholism
Visual hallucinations
Grief depiction
Death of a friend recounted
Bullying mentioned

All That Impossible Space by Anna Morgan

15-year-old Lara Laylor feels like a supporting character in her own life. She’s Ashley’s best friend, she’s Hannah’s sister she’s never just Lara. When new history teacher Mr Grant gives her an unusual assignment: investigating the mystery of the Somerton Man. Found dead in on an Adelaide beach in 1948, a half-smoked cigarette still in his mouth and the labels cut out of his clothes, the Somerton Man has intrigued people for years. Was he a spy? A criminal? Year 10 has plenty of mysteries of its own: boys, drama queen friends, and enigmatic new students… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism
Grooming behaviour & discussions of a teacher-student relationship
Toxic friendship (theme)
Suicide mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Asthma attacks (on-page)
Murder & dead bodies discussed
Drowning recounted
Bullying (rumour spreading)

All Eyes on Us by Kit Frick

All Eyes on Us by Kit Frick

The daughter of small town social climbers, Amanda Kelly is deeply invested in her boyfriend, real estate heir Carter Shaw. He’s kind, ambitious, the town golden boy—but he’s far from perfect. Because behind Amanda’s back, Carter is also dating Rosalie.

Rosalie Bell is fighting to remain true to herself and her girlfriend—while concealing her identity from her Christian fundamentalist parents. After years spent in and out of conversion “therapy,” her own safety is her top priority. But maintaining a fake, straight relationship is killing her from the inside… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

Queermisia
Parental abuse
Emotional abuse & gaslighting
Conversion therapy
Religious bigotry (theme)
Cheating
Parental with alcoholism
Gun violence
Bullying

Aftermath by Kelley Armstrong

Three years after losing her brother Luka in a school shooting, Skye Gilchrist is moving home. But there’s no sympathy for Skye and her family because Luka wasn’t a victim; he was a shooter. Jesse Mandal knows all too well that the scars of the past don’t heal easily. The shooting cost Jesse his brother and his best friend–Skye. Ripped apart by tragedy, Jesse and Skye can’t resist reopening the mysteries of their past. But old wounds hide darker secrets. And the closer Skye and Jesse get to the truth of what happened that day, the closer they get to a new killer.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism & Islamophobia
Drugging
Blood depiction
Death of a brother recounted
School shooting (theme)
Gun violence
Kidnapping
Stalking
Fire
Bullying

Ace of Shadows 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 unraveling investment scam, so he doesn’t have time to investigate a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Paedophilia & sexual assault*
Blood & injury depiction, including burns
Death of a mother
Death of a friend in a fire
Murder (on-page) & regicide
Torture
Physical assault
Poisoning
Bullying

Context : The villain is an adult man with a fetish for young girls; the only on-page sexual assault is unwanted touching.

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions, and do what must be done. The one place she can let her responsibilities go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Still, she knows she doesn’t have enough time for her school’s new culinary arts class, doesn’t have the money for the class’s trip to Spain — and shouldn’t still be dreaming of someday working in a real kitchen. But even with all the rules she has for her life — and all the rules everyone expects her to… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Antiziganism (g slur)
Colourism
Coming out themes recounted
Dubious consent scene discussed
Teen pregnancy & motherhood (theme) with mentions of childbirth mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Death of a mother, husband & grandfather recounted
Hurricanes & severe storms recounted
Bullying recounted

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighbourhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers—especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. With Mami’s determination to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, Xiomara understands that her thoughts are best kept to herself. So when she is… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racism
Misogyny & slut-shaming
Fatphobia & body shaming
Sexual harassment
Child abuse & abandonment mentioned
Cheating
Panic attacks
Recreational drug use
Alcohol abuse recounted
Minor physical injuries
Infertility & difficult childbirth mentioned
Bullying

Half a King by Joe Abercrombie

Half a King by Joe Abercrombie

To regain a throne he never wanted, Prince Yarvi first must survive cruelty, chains and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea itself. And he must do it all with only one good hand. Born a weakling in the eyes of his father, Yarvi is alone in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule. He cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge. Gathering a strange fellowship of the outcast and the lost, he finds they can do more to help him become the man he needs to be than any court of nobles could. Will the usurped become the usurper?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism, internalised ableism & slurs (theme)
Arranged marriage
Child abuse recounted
Death of a brother, father & husband
Murder
War themes
Bullying