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

Themes labels used: friendship, acceptance, identity, belonging, self-discovery, secrecy, trust, teamwork, responsibility, using power for good, growing up, hidden potential, looking past stereotypes

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Bumi

Tere Liye · 2014 · Bumi

A 15-year-old girl who can disappear is pulled into a hidden world where her secret ties to larger clan conflicts.

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

Themes labels: identity · secrecy · friendship · growing up · hidden potential · power and responsibility · difference and belonging · truth and revelation

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Going Wild

Lisa McMann · 2016 · Going Wild

A new girl finds a mysterious bracelet that grants animal powers, drawing her into friends, secrets, and danger.

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Premise labels: mysterious bracelet · animal-based powers · new kid in town · secret technology · powers discovery · friends help unravel mystery

Themes labels: fitting in · friendship · family · identity · self-control · responsibility · belonging · secrecy · growing up · trust · consequence of power · teamwork

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Super Powereds: Year 1

Drew Hayes · 2013 · Super Powereds

Five new college students hide a dangerous secret while training to become certified superheroes.

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Premise labels: superhero school · secret identity · experimental procedure · power control · hidden powers · hero certification · outcasts to heroes · training program · found family · social hierarchy

Themes labels: prejudice · control · identity · self-discovery · responsibility · coming of age · trust · belonging · class hierarchy · secrecy · friendship · growth · adversity · power and status · gender bias

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Alliance

Mark Frost · 2035 · The Paladin Prophecy

A teen with emerging powers stays at a secretive school over summer and uncovers deeper truths, betrayals, and danger.

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Premise labels: secret society · chosen teens · special powers · coming-of-power · hidden conspiracy · quest for answers · friend-or-foe · good versus evil · superpowered students · mystery uncovering · summer investigation

Themes labels: identity · friendship · loyalty · betrayal · trust · self-discovery · good and evil · power and responsibility · being different · family · secrets · coming of age · choice · sacrifice

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The Boy Who Knew Everything

Victoria Forester · 2015 · Piper McCloud

A genius boy and a flying girl lead gifted kids on secret missions, uncovering a prophecy, family secrets, and a hidden world.

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Premise labels: prophecy · special abilities · gifted children · super-intelligence · flying · secret team · rescue missions · hidden world · utopia · conspiracy · family mystery · government pursuit · save the world

Themes labels: self-acceptance · being yourself · friendship · bravery · loyalty · standing up for what is right · family · identity · acceptance · difference · good versus evil · leadership · coming of age · justice · teamwork

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The Secret Hour

Scott Westerfeld · 2005 · Midnighters

A new girl in small-town Oklahoma discovers a secret 25th hour, where only certain teens can move—and monsters hunt them.

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Premise labels: secret hour · extra hour · frozen world · midnight powers · hidden ability · small-town mystery · chosen teens · shadow creatures

Themes labels: identity · self-discovery · belonging · friendship · difference · hidden power · coming of age · community · survival · secrecy

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Time and Again

G. Willow Wilson · 2019 · Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson

Kamala Khan juggles a slumber party, a power mystery, and a classic villain as her life as Ms. Marvel shifts gears.

Why this is here

Premise labels: teen hero · secret identity · coming of age · friendship · family life · superhero double life · power mystery · small-town superheroics

Themes labels: identity · belonging · friendship · family · adolescence · diversity · representation · community · responsibility · faith · acceptance · self-discovery · balance · heroism · compassion · growing up

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The Girl in the Steel Corset

Kady Cross · 2011 · The Steampunk Chronicles

A troubled teen with a dangerous hidden side joins a misfit steampunk team racing to stop a machine-based conspiracy.

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Premise labels: hidden power · dual identity · found family · misfit team · criminal conspiracy · automaton threat · royal protection · special abilities · dark side · mystery investigation · teen heroes

Themes labels: identity · self-acceptance · belonging · trust · control · good and evil · power · loyalty · otherness · friendship · class difference · gender expectations

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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.

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

Themes labels: identity · self-acceptance · self-esteem · body image · bullying · friendship · family secrets · parental absence · grief · coming of age · truth and lies · being seen · belonging · adolescent anxiety · privacy · trust · mental health

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The Girl Who Could Fly

Victoria Forester · 2008 · Piper McCloud

A girl who can fly is sent to a secret school for exceptional kids, where friendship and danger collide.

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Premise labels: girl with powers · special ability · secret school · hidden talent · outcast child · ordinary world intrusion · gifted children

Themes labels: individuality · self-acceptance · difference · conformity · identity · belonging · freedom · courage · defiance · friendship · loyalty · morality · humility · acceptance of others · anti-diversity · normality · power and control · spirit over oppression · truth versus lies

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Psion Beta

Jacob Gowans · 2010 · Psion

A fugitive teen discovers latent powers and is recruited into a brutal training program for a hidden war.

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Premise labels: special powers · fugitive · training academy · war effort · hidden war · government recruitment · underdog · coming of age · teen fighters · genetic anomaly

Themes labels: trust · teamwork · friendship · loyalty · self-discovery · coming of age · identity · trauma · survival · perseverance · confidence · humility · morality · choice · war · sacrifice · belonging · social isolation · leadership

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Joshua Dread

Lee Bacon · 2012 · Joshua Dread

A middle school boy with supervillain parents must hide his own powers and team up with unexpected friends to save them.

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Premise labels: supervillain parents · secret identity · discovered powers · school life · friendship across sides · save the parents · villain kidnapping

Themes labels: identity · good vs evil · morality · family loyalty · friendship · belonging · growing up · choice · perspective · self-acceptance

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