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Characterization labels used: teen protagonist, girl genius, supportive father, eccentric father, smart children, resourceful, self-reliant, brave, ingenious, precocious, methodical, quippy, courage under pressure, tinkerer

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Impulse

Steven Gould · 2013 · Jumper

A sheltered teen from a teleporting family discovers her own powers and pushes into school, friends, and danger.

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Characterization labels: teen protagonist · female protagonist · smart protagonist · brilliant teen · homeschooled · overprotective father · paranoid father · supportive mother · family unit · lonely teen · self-educated · competent characters · flawed protagonist · precocious teen · geeky protagonist · likable protagonist

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Distance: 0.1382

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Binti: The Complete Trilogy

Nnedi Okorafor · 2019 · Binti

A gifted Himba teen leaves home for an elite off-world university and becomes central to an alien conflict.

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Characterization labels: teen protagonist · mathematical genius · resourceful heroine · outsider · chosen one · brave · curious · resilient · traumatized · diplomat · student · identity-shifting · self-discovery · special powers

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1465

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Gears of Revolution

J. Scott Savage · 2016 · Mysteries of Cove

Two teens chase a missing inventor into a dragon-haunted world and get trapped in a dangerous civil war.

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Characterization labels: teen protagonists · inventor · mechanic · feisty girl · mysterious ally · trusted-then-doubted · smart kids · reluctant leaders · character growth · flawed teens · resourceful · loner

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Distance: 0.1484

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Invincible, Vol. 1: Family Matters

Robert Kirkman · 2021 · Invincible

A teen discovers his inherited superpowers and learns to juggle school, family, and crime-fighting in a busy superhero world.

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Characterization labels: teen protagonist · relatable teen · ordinary student · superpowered parent · stay-at-home mother · supportive father · young team hero · pretty love interest · classic hero archetype

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Distance: 0.1488

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The Last Beginning

Lauren James, Wren James · 2016 · The Next Together

A queer teen uses a time machine to uncover her family’s hidden past and untangle a love story spread across history.

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Characterization labels: teen protagonist · adopted child · whiz kid · programmer · scientist parents · AI sidekick · impulsive heroine · headstrong · smart but reckless · emotionally intense · immature teenager · brilliant · queer heroine · love interest · supportive parents · famous parents · fugitive parents

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Distance: 0.1495

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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.

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Characterization labels: teen protagonist · relatable teen · sarcastic teen · angsty teen · physicist parent · blind girl · independent girl · supportive parents · smart parent · quick-thinking protagonist · emotionally controlled narrator · mature growth arc

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Distance: 0.1530

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Eva

Peter Dickinson · 1988

After a crash leaves her near death, a teen wakes in a chimp body and must navigate identity, ethics, and survival.

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Characterization labels: teen girl protagonist · adaptable protagonist · brave protagonist · highly intelligent protagonist · socially intelligent protagonist · scientist father · concerned mother · animal researcher · media target · celebrity subject · experimental subject

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Distance: 0.1542

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Between Planets

Robert A. Heinlein · 2002

A space-born teen is swept into an interplanetary revolt, forcing him to choose where he belongs and who he’ll aid.

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Characterization labels: teen protagonist · boy hero · young adult hero · naive but capable · resourceful · stubborn · independent · courageous · self-reliant · sympathetic protagonist · coming-of-age hero · scientist parents · rugged individualist

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Distance: 0.1548

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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.

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Characterization labels: genius teen · curious protagonist · brash teen · mysterious origin · developing powers · troublemaker · team dynamic · supportive friend

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Distance: 0.1548

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Brain Child

John Saul · 1985

After experimental brain surgery revives a teen, he returns changed, and an old local vengeance begins to stir.

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Characterization labels: teen protagonist · gifted teen · emotionless teen · popular kid · brilliant doctor · ambitious surgeon · loving father · grief-stricken parents · smart loyal friend · female concern figure · cold antagonist · sociopathic traits · socially popular teen · scientist as villain

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Distance: 0.1558

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Wake

Robert J. Sawyer · 2009 · WWW

A blind teen’s experimental sight-restoring implant instead reveals the Web—and a new intelligence waking inside it.

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Characterization labels: teenage girl · math prodigy · blind protagonist · smart teen · genius child · autistic father · Japanese scientist · hacker · research chimpanzee · emergent intelligence · sympathetic protagonist · female protagonist

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Distance: 0.1578

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Ship Breaker

Paolo Bacigalupi · 2010 · Ship Breaker

In a drowned, post-oil Gulf Coast future, a teen ship breaker finds a rich survivor and must choose salvage or rescue.

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Characterization labels: teen protagonist · abusive father · resourceful hero · small-for-age child laborer · morally torn · loyal best friend · rich girl · dangerous antagonist · underclass crew · drug-addicted parent · half-human laborer

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Distance: 0.1585

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