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Premise labels used: study drug, exam pressure, peer pressure, sleep deprivation, hallucinations, drug side effects, survival threat, friends under pressure

Setting labels used: London, Barbican Centre, private school, prestigious school, contemporary setting, urban setting, school setting, isolated group setting

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Miles Morales: Spider-Man

Jason Reynolds · 2017 · Miles Morales novels

A Brooklyn teen balancing school, family, and a scholarship must decide what being Spider-Man means when his world turns hostile.

Why this is here

Premise labels: teen superhero · dual life · identity crisis · school pressure · social justice · community risk · suspended student · scholarship stakes · secret identity · small-scale heroics

Setting labels: Brooklyn · New York City · prestigious private school · high school · school setting · urban neighborhood · contemporary setting · working-class setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2795

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من قتل وليد؟

خلف زون · 2025

A teen is pulled into a web of school secrets, blackmail, and revenge after a mysterious message about his friend's death.

Why this is here

Premise labels: mystery victim · blackmail · revenge · school secrets · bullying · teen crime · social-media threat · past trauma · investigation

Setting labels: secondary school · school campus · Arab school setting · contemporary setting · male-dominated setting · small social circle · social media setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2821

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Forgotten

Cat Patrick · 2011 · Forgotten

A teen who forgets each day but sees the future must navigate love, secrets, and a dark mystery.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory loss · future memories · notes to self · hidden condition · romantic complication · family secrets · mystery hook

Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · suburban family life · school scenes · home scenes · teen social world · modern day · psychological realism

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2868

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Zom-B

Darren Shan · 2012 · Zom-B

A teen survives a zombie outbreak while wrestling with racist conditioning, family abuse, and shocking twists.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie apocalypse · survival story · family conflict · racist upbringing · abusive home · moral conflict · social commentary

Setting labels: London · Ireland · school setting · urban setting · British setting · zombie apocalypse · post-apocalyptic · contemporary

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2890

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Things Not Seen

Andrew Clements · 2004 · Things

A 15-year-old boy wakes up invisible and teams with a blind girl while his family races to explain and reverse it.

Why this is here

Premise labels: invisibility · blindness · missing child · secret identity · coming of age · disability parallel · finding oneself

Setting labels: contemporary · school setting · library setting · home setting · urban setting

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Distance: 0.2929

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The Girl and the Glim

India Swift · 2017

A shy new kid at school discovers only she can see mysterious creatures tied to fear, friendship, and danger.

Why this is here

Premise labels: new kid · new school · bullying · hidden creature · supernatural ally · fear and anxiety · identity · belonging

Setting labels: new town · new school · school setting · home setting · woods · modern world · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.2947

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Alles wat er was

Hanna Bervoets · 2013

After a sudden disaster, eight people are sealed inside a school and must survive as fear, hunger, and doubt take over.

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Premise labels: group survival · isolation · sealed indoors · post-disaster shelter · social breakdown · resource scarcity · unknown outside · cabin fever

Setting labels: school building · basisschool · gymnasium · post-apocalyptic · sealed interior · outside danger · isolation

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2948

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Boy 7

Mirjam Mous · 2009 · Best of YA | XS

An amnesiac teen follows clues in his backpack to uncover his identity, and a secret experiment tied to his forgotten past.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · identity search · memory loss · secret experiment · trust no one · hidden past · escape plot

Setting labels: contemporary · school age · anonymous isolated setting · wilderness opening · institution setting · American setting (contested)

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2948

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Shiny Happy People

Clay McLeod Chapman · 2025

A traumatized teen investigates a viral party drug that makes her town eerily perfect—and dangerously not themselves.

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Premise labels: mysterious drug · small town · high school · peer pressure · body snatching · alien invasion · body horror · drug horror · addiction horror · eco horror · coming of age

Setting labels: small town · high school · company town · Virginia · contemporary setting · biotech town · suburban/teen social setting · claustrophobic setting

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Distance: 0.2949

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The Upper World

Femi Fadugba · 2021 · The Upper World

Two London teens, 15 years apart, are linked by a physics-driven time-travel mystery and a race to change fate.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · fate change · future vision · precognition · intergenerational link · science problem-solving · investigation · gang violence · foster care · football ambition · physics tutoring · past-future connection

Setting labels: London · South London · Peckham · Brixton · inner-city setting · working-class neighborhood · contemporary · near-future · future London · school setting · foster care system

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2976

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The Coma

Alex Garland · 2004

After a brutal attack, a man awakens in a strange in-between world and tries to piece together reality before it slips away.

Why this is here

Premise labels: coma · amnesia · altered consciousness · dream state · identity loss · wake-up quest · psychological mystery · reality distortion · subconscious journey · survival

Setting labels: London Underground · hospital · home · urban setting · dreamscape · inner mental world · liminal state · contemporary setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2979

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What Not To Do If You Turn Invisible

Ross Welford · 2016

A bullied girl’s acne cure makes her invisible, thrusting her into secrets, danger, and a search for who she really is.

Why this is here

Premise labels: invisibility · body image · bullying · family secret · identity search · friendship · coming of age · medical mishap · secrecy

Setting labels: North East England · Whitley Bay · school setting · home setting · residential home · contemporary setting · real-world setting · British setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2983

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