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Premise labels used: hidden power, invisible protagonist, parallel world, secret identity, teenage adventure, gifted trio, clan conflict, coming-of-age

Setting labels used: contemporary school life, parallel world, fictional clan system, secondary world

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Persephone

Lev Grossman · 2022

A bullied teen’s buried grief cracks open a hidden power and pulls her toward a secret world she barely understands.

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Premise labels: teen powers · emotional awakening · school bullying · hidden abilities · secret world · coming-of-age · disappearing parent · gifted teens · power eruption

Setting labels: high school · school setting · teen setting · contemporary setting · secret facility · hidden world · speculative reality

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Distance: 0.1600

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Matahari

Tere Liye · 2016 · Bumi

Three teen friends pursue a hidden underground civilization, where a genius’s invention leads them into bigger dangers.

Why this is here

Premise labels: parallel worlds · mysterious realm · quest for hidden world · genius inventor · superpowered trio · friendship quest · hidden civilization · underworld journey · secret origin · identity search

Setting labels: parallel universe · subterranean world · underground civilization · fictional world · school setting · urban school life · fantasy realm

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Distance: 0.1602

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Parallel

Claudia Lefeve · 2011 · Travelers

An orphan with hidden powers is pulled into a parallel reality where family, identity, and time are all unsettled.

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Premise labels: orphan protagonist · foster care · alternate reality · hidden identity · powers awakening · wrong reality · family reunion · chosen one · parallel worlds · time travel

Setting labels: alternate universe · parallel worlds · contemporary · high school · foster home · group home · private school

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Distance: 0.1632

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Has Anyone Seen Jessica Jenkins?

Liz Kessler · 2015

A schoolgirl’s sudden invisibility draws her into a secret circle of kids with powers and a dangerous hidden origin.

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Premise labels: invisibility · superpowers · hidden abilities · kids with powers · ordinary child becomes extraordinary · secret origin · young heroes · friend-led investigation

Setting labels: school setting · middle school · teen contemporary · small-scale reality · lightly fantastical world · local adventure

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Distance: 0.1704

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Bintang

Tere Liye · 2017 · Bumi

A teen trio with hidden powers returns to a parallel world on a dangerous mission that ends in a shocking cliffhanger.

Why this is here

Premise labels: secret powers · parallel worlds · mission to save worlds · high-stakes quest · team adventure · prevent disaster · search mission · hidden truth · power struggle · rival factions

Setting labels: parallel world · underworld · hidden cities · school setting · fantasy realm · high-tech world · subterranean world · futuristic setting · multiple clans

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Distance: 0.1727

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Faja

Petra Stehlíková · 2017 · Naslouchač

A young enslaved girl travels between worlds and uncovers buried truths that could upend everything she knows.

Why this is here

Premise labels: hidden identity · enslaved people · coming of age · secret history · friendship across conflict · mystery quest

Setting labels: secondary world · dystopian world · mountain region · lowlands · post-collapse society · technological contrast

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Distance: 0.1854

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Wander Dust

Michelle Warren · 2011 · The Seraphina Parrish Trilogy

A teen discovers she can time travel and is drawn into a secret society, a strange school, and a risky love choice.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · secret society · boarding school · special abilities · team dynamics · mystery identity · search for mother · forbidden romance · coming of age

Setting labels: modern day world · Chicago · boarding school · secret society · hidden magical world · real world plus fantasy layer · past and future time travel · special school

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Distance: 0.1862

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Family

Robert J. Crane · 2012 · The Girl in the Box

A sheltered young meta-human faces war, betrayal, and a painful reckoning with her family and powers.

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Premise labels: family conflict · traitor hunt · war between factions · power struggle · identity crisis · belonging · coming of age · hidden powers

Setting labels: urban fantasy world · dystopian setting · supernatural world · meta-human society · fictional organizations · post-teen transition

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Distance: 0.1870

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Gatefather

Orson Scott Card · 2015 · Mither Mages

A gifted teen mage faces possession, mythic politics, and a final struggle over souls, gates, and worlds.

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Premise labels: chosen mage · gate magic · hidden powers · family conflict · world-hopping · apocalyptic stakes · possession · good versus evil · mythic reinterpretation

Setting labels: modern day · contemporary world · parallel worlds · secondary world · Earth · otherworld · mythic setting · afterlife · high school

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Distance: 0.1885

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The Subtle Knife

Philip Pullman · 2018 · His Dark Materials

Two children from different worlds join forces to survive, uncover Dust, and wield a knife that can cut between realities.

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Premise labels: parallel worlds · portal fantasy · multiverse · quest object · coming of age · fugitive child · child protagonists · battle for power · search for father · search for truth

Setting labels: alternate world · parallel worlds · multiverse · our world · Oxford · deserted city · fantasy reality · physics-inflected fantasy

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Distance: 0.1915

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Life Is Strange Vol. 3: Strings

Emma Vieceli · 2020 · Life is Strange Comics

Max must confess her true origin and face alternate realities while fighting to get back to the Chloe she lost.

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Premise labels: time travel · alternate realities · multiverse · identity reveal · homecoming quest · truth confession · romantic reunion · search for missing love

Setting labels: small-town setting · high school age · alternate timelines · parallel reality · fictionalized world · video game universe

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Distance: 0.1925

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Anchored

Bridget E. Baker · 2021 · Anchored

A runaway teen wakes between Earth and a hidden world, where her secret power could save—or doom—both realities.

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Premise labels: dual worlds · alternate reality · hidden power · secret identity · runaway · missing past · dream world · worlds colliding · prophecy · chosen one · interworld connection · two-life protagonist

Setting labels: Earth · Terra · alternate reality · contemporary setting · fantasy realm · parallel worlds · urban fantasy setting · mythic world

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Distance: 0.1930

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