The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer

The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer

In the future, in a place called Satelite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill enters the world, unwanted by his parents. He’s sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute where boys are put to work by the state, testing highly dangerous products. At the end of most days, they are covered with burns, bruises, and sores. Cosmo realizes that if he doesn’t escape, he will die at this so-called orphanage.

When the moment finally comes, Cosmo breaks out with the help of the Supernaturalists, a motley crew of kids who all have the same special ability as Cosmo-they can see supernatural Parasites, creatures that feed on the life force of humans. The Supernaturalists patrol the city at night, hunting the Parasites in hopes of saving what’s left of humanity in Satellite City. Or so they think.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Medical experimentation
  • Explosion
  • Gun violence
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The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl & the Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer

Opal Koboi, power-crazed pixie, is plotting to exterminate mankind and become fairy queen.

If she succeeds, the spirits of long-dead fairy warriors will rise from the earth, inhabit the nearest available bodies and wreak mass destruction. But what happens if those nearest bodies include crows, or deer, or badgers – or two curious little boys by the names of Myles and Beckett Fowl?

Yes, it’s true. Criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl’s four-year-old brothers could be involved in destroying the human race. Can Artemis and Captain Holly Short of the Lower Elements Police stop Opal and prevent the end of the world?

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Explosion
  • Gun violence
  • Plane crash
  • Mind control
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The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl & the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer

Artemis’s mother is gravely ill. Unfortunately the cure, an endangered lemur, was made extinct eight years ago . . . by Artemis Fowl. Talk about awkward.

What if he could travel back in time, outwit his former self and bring the lemur home? With the right demon warlock, it might be possible.

But we all remember the young Artemis. He was, to put it mildly, a pretty terrible human being, so this won’t be easy.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Serious physical illness of a parent
  • Physical injury including broken bones
  • Death of a mother from radiation poisoning mentioned
  • Explosion & bombings
  • Kidnapping
  • Plane crash
  • Gun violence
  • Fire
  • Animal death (theme)
  • Animal cruelty
  • Animal medical experimentation
  • Animal stampede
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The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl & the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer

Big human haters, they are (thankfully) stuck in Limbo, a place that exists outside of time and space. But now demons are materialising on Earth at random. This won’t be pretty . . .

Artemis is determined to save the day (I know, everyone’s shocked). Can he somehow help the demons, and avert the carnage and chaos of a human-demon war?

He’s not the only one on their trail, though. Meet Minerva Paradizo – ruthless child genius, and not quite so demon-friendly.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Gun violence
  • Explosion & bombings
  • Knife violence & stabbing
  • Kidnapping & hostage situation
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The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer

The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer

Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has constructed a supercomputer from stolen fairy technology. In the wrong hands it could be fatal for humans and fairies alike. But no need to worry, Artemis has a brilliant plan. He’s not going to use the computer; he’s just going to show it to a ruthless American businessman with Mafia connections. His bodyguard, Butler, will be with him. What could possibly go wrong…? 

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Recreational drug use (smoking)
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Physical injuries, including amputation & broken bones
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Explosion
  • Gun violence
  • Kidnapping
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The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer

Goblin gangs (exactly as bad as it sounds) are planning an uprising, and it looks like they’ve had human help. Holly Short is convinced it’s her old nemesis, Artemis Fowl.

But, for once, Artemis is innocent. He’s too busy getting his father back from the Arctic Circle, where the Russian Mafia (also very bad) is holding him prisoner.

All Artemis has to do is clear his name, face the biggest criminal organisations in the world and avoid freezing to death. At least it’ll get him out of the house . . .

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Recreational drug use (smoking)
  • Physical injuries, including amputation
  • Kidnapping & captivity
  • Electrocution
  • Gun violence
  • Explosion
  • Near-drowning incident
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Becoming by Michelle Obama

Becoming by Michelle Obama

In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Racism
  • Terminal cancer
  • Death of a parent
  • Death of a friend
  • Gun violence & mass shootings discussed
  • War themes mentioned
  • Poverty themes
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White Bird by RJ Palacio

White Bird by R.J. Palacio

In R. J. Palacio’s collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian’s grandmother, Grandmère. This is Grandmère’s story as a young Jewish girl hidden away by a family in Nazi-occupied France during World War II told in graphic novel form.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Antisemitism
  • Blood & gore depiction, including dead bodies
  • Death of a parent in a concentration camp
  • Gun violence
  • The Holocaust & World War Two (theme)
  • Animal attack
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

First, there were ten—a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a little private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an eccentric millionaire unknown to all of them, is nowhere to be found. All that the guests have in common is a wicked past they’re unwilling to reveal—and a secret that will seal their fate. For each has been marked for murder. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion.
When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. One by one they fall prey… before the weekend is out, there will be none.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Racism & racial slurs
  • Misogyny
  • Classism
  • Antisemitism
  • Suicide
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Physical injuries
  • Murder
  • Gun violence
  • Poisoning
  • Drowning
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The Desolations of Devil’s Acre by Ransom Riggs

The Desolations of Devil’s Acre by Ransom Riggs

The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began – his grandfather’s house. Jacob doesn’t know how they escaped from V’s loop to find themselves in Florida. But he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned.

After a narrow getaway from a blood-thirsty hollow, Jacob and Noor reunite with Miss Peregrine and the peculiar children in Devil’s Acre. The Acre is being plagued by desolations, a terrible portent of Caul’s amassing army. Risen from the Library of Souls and more powerful than ever, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains – deliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones. If they can decipher its secret location.

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Trigger & Content Warnings:

  • Alcohol consumption
  • Recreational drug use (smoking)
  • Blood & gore depiction
  • Dead bodies
  • Death of a grandfather recounted
  • Gun violence
  • Knife violence
  • Strangulation
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