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

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

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Everyone We've Been

Sarah Everett · 2016

After an accident, a teen violinist loses memories and sees an invisible boy, leading her into a buried secret about her past.

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Premise labels: memory loss · memory erasure · missing memories · mysterious boy · medical mystery · accident aftermath · first love · identity crisis · family secret

Setting labels: contemporary · small town · high school · clinic setting · medical facility · post-accident · present day · teen life

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Distance: 0.1361

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G.O.D.S: Gifted. Obedient. Deadly. Students.

Jaye Pratt · 2021 · G.O.D.S

A foster teen with missing memories is pulled into a secret program of weaponized students and a dangerous why-choose bond.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · foster care · secret organization · genetically engineered humans · child soldiers · protective harem · lost identity · mystery note · revenge

Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · current time · secret program · school and foster home space

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Distance: 0.1549

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Mixed Up

Gordon Korman · 2023

Two middle-school boys start losing their memories to each other and must uncover the strange link before they lose themselves.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory swapping · memory loss · identity exchange · grief recovery · found friendship · mystery solving · body-switching trope

Setting labels: same town · different sides of town · different schools · middle school · post-pandemic · contemporary · real-world setting · light fantasy · science fiction element

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Distance: 0.1678

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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: 0.1763

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17 juni

Alex Schulman · 2025

A suspended teacher calls a lost family number and reaches his dead father, then a single childhood day in 1986.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time slip · phone to past · childhood trauma · family mystery · school incident · self-investigation · forensic memory

Setting labels: Sweden · 1980s · present day · childhood summer place · school setting · contemporary reality · psychological realism

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Distance: 0.1767

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Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 2

Ichigo Takano · 2016 · Orange: The Complete Collection

Future letters push a shy high schooler and her friends to try to save a troubled boy and rewrite regret.

Why this is here

Premise labels: future letters · time travel · fate change · suicide prevention · friendship support · second chance

Setting labels: high school · teen ensemble · present day · future selves · multiple timelines

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Distance: 0.1892

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The Infinite Noise

Lauren Shippen · 2019 · The Bright Sessions

A teen empath in high school learns to manage overwhelming feelings while falling for a classmate who quiets the noise.

Why this is here

Premise labels: empath powers · therapy · high school romance · secret abilities · self-discovery · first love · emotional overload

Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · therapeutic setting · fictional superpower world · teen social environment

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Distance: 0.1896

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The Death and Life of Dominick Davidner

Shawn Inmon · 2017 · Middle Falls Time Travel

A murdered man wakes up in his childhood body and races through new lives to find the wife he lost.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time loop · second chance · lost love · childhood reset · memory retention · quest narrative

Setting labels: fictional town · small town · military school · school setting · afterlife · parallel worlds · dimension shifts · multiple timelines · childhood setting · adult life revisited

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Distance: 0.1906

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The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

David Arnold · 2018

After a hypnotic encounter, a teen notices tiny changes in everyone around him and starts questioning reality and his future.

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Premise labels: hypnosis · altered reality · teen existential crisis · coming of age · identity crisis · search for self · college decision

Setting labels: suburban · high school · senior year · Illinois · contemporary · present-day · home life · school social circle

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Distance: 0.1910

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The Leaving

Tara Altebrando · 2016

Five abducted kids return eleven years later with no memories, while one sibling hunts for the missing sixth child.

Why this is here

Premise labels: missing children · returned abductees · memory loss · identity mystery · unsolved disappearance · search for answers · missing sibling

Setting labels: contemporary · small town · school setting · kindergarten · eleven-year gap · teen years later · homecoming setting

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Distance: 0.1938

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The Raw Shark Texts

Steven Hall · 2007

An amnesiac man follows clues left by his former self while a conceptual shark hunts his memories and identity.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · identity search · conceptual predator · quest for truth · grief recovery

Setting labels: contemporary setting · urban spaces · un-space · conceptual world · material reality · mental landscape

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Distance: 0.1944

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Lost and Found

Orson Scott Card · 2019 · Micropowers

A shunned teen with a tiny finding-lost-things power gets pulled into friendship and a dangerous missing-child case.

Why this is here

Premise labels: minor powers · finding lost things · misunderstood teen · missing child · outcast protagonist · compulsion to return items · supportive friendship · school ostracism

Setting labels: high school · school setting · contemporary world · our world · police investigation · support group setting · family home

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Distance: 0.1964

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