Tag Archives: Foster Care System

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of foster care system experiences.

See also Child abuse & neglect, and Involuntary adoption.

All In by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the team’s unique profiling talents, these murders seem baffling: unlike many serial killers, this one uses different methods every time. All of the victims were killed in public, yet the killer does not show up on any security feed. And each victim has a string of numbers tattooed on their wrist. Hidden in the numbers is a code-and the closer the Naturals come to unraveling the mystery, the more perilous the case becomes. Meanwhile, Cassie is dealing… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Parental abandoment & physical and verval child abuyse recounted
  • Foster care experiences recounted (secondary characters)
  • Self-harm (secondary character)
  • Attempted murder resulting in being comatose (secondary character)
  • Murder (theme), including by drowning, being shot with an arrow, and a magician being burned alive due to faked equipment malfunction

Goodbye, Perfect by Sara Barnard

When I was wild, you were stead… Now you are wild – what am I? Eden McKinley knows she can’t count on much in this world, but she can depend on Bonnie, her solid, steady, straight-A best friend. So it’s a complete shock when, five days before the start of their GCSEs, Bonnie runs away with a guy Eden knows nothing about. And it’s the last person she would ever have expected. As the days pass, and her world begins to unravel, Eden is forced to question everything she thought she knew about her best friend and herself.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Adult-minor teacher-student relationship (theme), including discussions of paedophilia & grooming (the protagonist’s teenaged best friend ‘runs away’ with their music teacher whose in his 30s)
  • Child pornography mentioned
  • Adoption due to child neglect (protagonist)