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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Flowers for Algernon.
Setting labels used: laboratory, school, workplace, United States
Focused on “middle school” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
An eleven-year-old’s life changes when her scientist grandfather reverses aging and lands in middle school with her.
Why this is here
Setting labels: middle school · home life · scientific lab · present day · urban/suburban
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2253
A grieving teen and a troubled classmate race to recreate a legendary formula, risking love, sanity, and their darker selves.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · chemistry lab · Pennsylvania · contemporary setting · American high school · school competition
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2051
A professor loses his physicist lover to a strange, selective void created in a campus lab.
Why this is here
Setting labels: university campus · physics laboratory · academic environment · California · contemporary setting
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2104
A hidden alien-human hybrid must survive high school, a bully, and a dangerous crush without exposing her secret.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · small town · Wisconsin · present day · laboratory · school setting · hidden-in-plain-sight · near-lab hometown · contemporary setting
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2232
A Chicago homicide detective with a strange birthmark uncovers a conspiracy linking murders, clones, and history.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Chicago · United States · North America · lab setting · political setting
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2317
A teen girl discovers she’s a manufactured android and flees those who built her, while fighting for her humanity.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · Minnesota · high school · rural town · alternate present · United States · government facility · lab setting · farm town · school setting
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2483
A schoolgirl discovers time-leaping abilities and, alongside a second story about fears, confronts memory, consequence, and change.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · school science lab · 1960s · Japan · future society · everyday life · school setting
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2575
A scientist’s severed head remains alive, pulling an assistant into a dangerous web of experimentation and betrayal.
Why this is here
Setting labels: laboratory · medical setting · psychiatric asylum
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2584
A snarky winged teen and her flock race to stop a corporation’s plan to remake humanity and cut the population in half.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · global travel · United States · Europe · Germany · Hawaii · Los Angeles · school lab setting · corporate headquarters · modern times
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2595
A skeptical professor loses four hours and his hat, then reality around him begins to warp into menace.
Why this is here
Setting labels: university town · academic setting · small town · academic community
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2610
A rule-breaking seventh grader suspects his new teacher is hiding an impossible secret in this humorous school mystery.
Why this is here
Setting labels: middle school · school year · classroom · hallway · detention · field hockey
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2925
A lazy middle schooler accidentally eats knowledge pills and must use his new genius to save his school.
Why this is here
Setting labels: middle school · school closure · hotel · science conference · contemporary · public school
Reader-connected: no
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2928
