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Hush by Dylan Farrow

Hush by Dylan Farrow

Seventeen-year-old Shae has led a seemingly quiet life, joking with her best friend Fiona, and chatting with Mads, the neighbourhood boy who always knows how to make her smile. All while secretly keeping her fears at bay… Of the disease that took her brother’s life. Of how her dreams seem to bleed into reality around her. Of a group of justice seekers called the Bards who claim to use the magic of Telling to keep her community safe. When her mother is murdered, she can no longer pretend. Not knowing who to trust, Shae journeys to unlock the truth, instead finding a new… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Medical experimentation
Death of a parent
Murder
Knife violence & stabbing
Fire

Hood River Rat by K Webster

Hood River Rat by K. Webster

Hood River was supposed to be the change I needed. A fresh start. An escape from my painful past. Better in every way. I’m a popular guy. Approachable. I make friends easily. Cool car. Nice clothes. Good attitude. Everything will be fine. School is school. I’ll keep my head down until graduation and try not to stick out. College will be here before I know it. Yet my first day proves to be anything but easy. The Hood River Hoodlums—our school’s most notorious group of bad boys—have put a target on my back. Their leader, Roan, hates me. He calls me Rat. To him and his… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Attempted rape of a minor
Drug abuse
Murder
Attempted drowning

The Valiant by Lesley Livingston

The Valiant by Lesley Livingston

Fallon is the daughter of a proud Celtic king, the sister of the legendary warrior Sorcha, and the sworn enemy of Julius Caesar. When Fallon was a child, Caesar’s armies invaded her homeland, and her beloved sister was killed in battle. Now, on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Fallon is eager to follow in her sister’s footsteps and earn her place in the fearsome Cantii war band. She never gets the chance. Fallon is captured and sold to an elite training school for female gladiators—owned by none other than Julius Caesar. In a cruel twist of fate, the man who destroyed Fallon’s… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery
Child neglect
Attempted rape & sexual assault
Death of a friend
Death of a baby brother from fever mentioned
Death of a sister recounted
Murder
Sword violence
Kidnapping
Colonialism & military violence

The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his family what happened there. Long ago, Maddie was a little girl making dolls in her bedroom when she saw something she shouldn’t have—and is trying to remember that lost trauma by making haunting sculptures. Long ago, something sinister, something hungry, walked in the tunnels and the mountains and the coal mines of their hometown in rural Pennsylvania. Now, Nate and Maddie Graves are married, and they have moved back to their hometown with their son, Oliver… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisic slurs
Domestic abuse
Child abuse
Murder
Bullying
Graphic animal death
Animal abuse

Sistersong by Lucy Holland

Sistersong by Lucy Holland

In the ancient kingdom of Dumnonia, there is old magic to be found in the whisper of the wind, the roots of the trees, and the curl of the grass. King Cador knew this once, but now the land has turned from him, calling instead to his three children. Riva can cure others, but can’t seem to heal her own deep scars. Keyne battles to be accepted for who he truly is—the king’s son. And Sinne dreams of seeing the world, of finding adventure. All three fear a life of confinement within the walls of the hold, their people’s last bastion of strength against the invading Saxons. However, change… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Transmisia
Misgendering
Deadnaming
Religious persecution
Pregnancy
Chronic leg & hand injury
Physical injury & illness including death from blood poisoning, head injury, and graphic burn scars
Dead body & mutilation
Death of a father, on-page
Death of a sister
Murder & attempted murder
Death from a fall, on-page
Knife & sword violence
Arrow violence
Whipping, off-page
Fire recounted
Loss of autonomy (glamour magic)
War themes & battle scenes

Mistletoe and Murder by Robin Stevens

Mistletoe and Murder by Robin Stevens

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas hols in snowy Cambridge. Hazel has high hopes of its beautiful spires, cosy libraries and inviting tearooms but there is danger lurking in the dark stairwells of ancient Maudlin College. Two days before Christmas, there is a terrible accident. At least, it appears to be an accident – until the Detective Society look a little closer, and realise a murder has taken place. Faced with several irritating grown-ups and fierce competition from a rival agency, they must use all their cunning and courage to find the killer (in time for Christmas Day, of course).

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexism
Racism
Classism
Alcohol consumption
Blood & injury depiction
Dead bodies
Emesis
Death of parents in a car accident mentioned
Murder & attempted murder
Near drowning
Death from a fall down the stairs
Death from poisoning

Death in the Spotlight by Robin Stevens

Death in the Spotlight by Robin Stevens

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are off to the beautiful Rue Theatre in London, where they will face an entirely new challenge: acting. But behind the theatre’s glittering facade, the girls soon realise that there is trouble at the Rue. Jealousy, threats and horrible pranks quickly spiral out of control – and then one of the cast is found dead. As opening night looms closer, Hazel and Daisy must take centre stage and solve the crime . . . before the murderer strikes again.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Coming out themes
Racism
Sexism
Homomisia
Dead body
Murder of a mother & father by drowning recounted
Boating accident recounted
Death of a colleague (theme)
Murder & attempted murder
Poisoning
Physical assault
Threats of violence & murder
Homelessness mentioned

Arsenic for Tea by Robin Stevens

Arsenic for Tea by Robin Stevens

Schoolgirl detectives Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are at Daisy’s home, Fallingford, for the holidays. Daisy’s glamorous mother is throwing a tea party for Daisy’s birthday, and the whole family is invited, from eccentric Aunt Saskia to dashing Uncle Felix. But it soon becomes clear that this party isn’t really about Daisy at all. Naturally, Daisy is furious. Then one of their party falls seriously, mysteriously ill—and everything points to poison. With wild storms preventing anyone from leaving, or the police from arriving, Fallingford suddenly feels like a dangerous place to be. Not… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism & racist language
Sexism
Classism
Ableism
Alcohol consumption mentioned
Dead bodies discussed
Emesis
Death of a father from suicide mentioned
Murder by arsenic poisoning, on-page
Floods

Jolly Foul Play by Robin Stevens

Jolly Foul Play by Robin Stevens

Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong have returned to Deepdean for a new school term, but nothing is the same. There’s a new Head Girl, Elizabeth Hurst, and a team of Prefects – and these bullying Big Girls are certainly not good eggs. Then, after the fireworks display on Bonfire Night, Elizabeth is found – murdered. Many girls at Deepdean had reason to hate Elizabeth, but who might have committed such foul play? Could the murder be linked to the secrets and scandals, scribbled on scraps of paper, that are suddenly appearing around the school? And with their own friendship falling to pieces, how will Daisy and Hazel solve this mystery?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Queermisia & lesbomisia, on-page
Ableism discussed
Racism
Nazism & antisemitism discussed
Classism
Chronic heart disease discussed
Dead body
Psychiatric hospitalisation for eating disorder mentioned
Murder of a teenage girl from blunt-force trauma to the head, off-page
Kidnapping & captivity
Disappearance of a child and sister
Bullying & rumor-spreading

Illusionary by Zoraida Córdova

Illusionary by Zoraida Córdova

For years, she was wielded as a weapon. Now it’s her time to fight back. Reeling from betrayal at the hands of the Whispers, Renata Convida is a girl on the run. With few options and fewer allies, she’s reluctantly joined forces with none other than Prince Castian, her most infuriating and intriguing enemy. They’re united by a lofty goal: find the fabled Knife of Memory, kill the ruthless King Fernando, and bring peace to the nation. Together, Ren and Castian have a chance to save everything, if only they can set aside their complex and intense feelings for each other… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & injury depiction
Murder
Torture