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

Setting labels used: small town, rural setting, farm, country town, school setting, boarding school, secret institute, underground facility, contemporary setting, mixed-era feel, laboratories, top-secret facility, maximum-security school

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Starstruck

Brenda Hiatt · 2013 · Starstruck

A nerdy small-town teen’s crush on the new quarterback spirals into alien secrets, royal destiny, and danger.

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Premise labels: ordinary girl becomes special · alien heritage · hidden identity · lost royalty · fated connection · new boy at school · small-town outsider · secret powers · school romance · ordinary life disrupted

Setting labels: small town · high school · Jewel, Indiana · midwest · Earth · Mars · alien colony · school drama · small-town America · modern setting

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Distance: 0.2162

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Persephone

Lev Grossman · 2022

A bullied teen’s buried grief cracks open a hidden power and pulls her toward a secret world she barely understands.

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Premise labels: teen powers · emotional awakening · school bullying · hidden abilities · secret world · coming-of-age · disappearing parent · gifted teens · power eruption

Setting labels: high school · school setting · teen setting · contemporary setting · secret facility · hidden world · speculative reality

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Distance: 0.2217

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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

Setting labels: rural farm · country setting · small town · school for special abilities · hidden utopia · magical world · alternate world · contemporary setting · United States · government institutions · mountain valley · on-the-road

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Has Anyone Seen Jessica Jenkins?

Liz Kessler · 2015

A schoolgirl’s sudden invisibility draws her into a secret circle of kids with powers and a dangerous hidden origin.

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

Setting labels: school setting · middle school · teen contemporary · small-scale reality · lightly fantastical world · local adventure

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Distance: 0.2345

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Vanished: When Lightning Strikes / Code Name Cassandra

Meg Cabot · 2010 · 1-800-Where-R-You

After lightning grants a teen the power to find missing kids, she’s hunted by the FBI and everyone else.

Why this is here

Premise labels: psychic ability · missing children · missing persons · gift or curse · government pursuit · media attention · secret power · ordinary teen with powers · find the missing · power used for good and evil

Setting labels: high school · Indiana · small town · summer camp · music camp · contemporary setting · supernatural reality · school detention · government surveillance

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Vita Nostra

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 2018 · Vita Nostra (English)

A coerced teen enters a terrifying secret school where studying remakes reality, identity, and the self.

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Premise labels: magical school · coerced training · hidden curriculum · mysterious mentor · metaphysical education · transformation · forced selection

Setting labels: remote village · provincial town · boarding school · university · beach vacation · small town · institutional setting

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The Mysterious Benedict Society

Trenton Lee Stewart · 2008 · The Mysterious Benedict Society

Four gifted children are recruited for a secret mission at a ruleless school where puzzles, codes, and danger await.

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Premise labels: gifted children · secret mission · undercover school · logic puzzles · codebreaking · world threat · misfit team · hidden tests · adventure quest · child spies

Setting labels: contemporary reality · school setting · boarding school · secret underground tunnels · island setting · hidden lairs · classroom world · slightly fantastical reality · slightly futuristic reality · fictional institute

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The Institute

Stephen King · 2019

A kidnapped genius wakes up in a secret compound where children with psychic gifts are exploited and must fight to escape.

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Premise labels: kidnapping · secret facility · gifted children · psychic powers · government conspiracy · escape attempt

Setting labels: suburban Minneapolis · small-town America · rural Maine · South Carolina · contemporary · secret compound · institutional setting

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Harbinger, Vol. 1: Omega Rising

Joshua Dysart · 2013 · Harbinger (2012)

A troubled teen psychic is hunted, recruited into a secret power network, and pushed toward a world-changing conflict.

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Premise labels: superpowered teenager · psychic powers · government pursuit · secret school · secret network · recruitment offer · destiny burden · power with a price · fugitive hero

Setting labels: secret school · secret organization · hidden psychic society · real-world-feeling setting · superhero universe · alternate-reality continuity · urban setting

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School of Shards

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 2025 · Vita Nostra (English)

A magic-school provost must repair a reality she reshaped, training new students while speech itself begins to fail.

Why this is here

Premise labels: magic school · language magic · reality shaping · world collapse · teacher student reversal · saving the world · next generation · mystery curriculum

Setting labels: isolated school · academy setting · small town · pocket dimension · post-Soviet atmosphere · alternative reality · world without fear · cosmic reality

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A Dark Inheritance

Chris d'Lacey · 2014 · Unicorne Files

A boy who can alter reality joins a secret agency to uncover a father’s disappearance and a strange school mystery.

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Premise labels: missing father · supernatural ability · reality manipulation · secret organization · paranormal investigation · detective mission · school mystery · child protagonist

Setting labels: modern-day · school setting · coastal setting · small-town setting · alternate realities · supernatural reality · contemporary world

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Distance: 0.2635

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Evil Genius

Catherine Jinks · 2005 · Genius

A lonely child genius is groomed for villainy at a secret academy, then starts questioning who he is and who to trust.

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Premise labels: gifted child · evil school · criminal training · world domination · child hacker · hidden parentage · moral awakening · lonely genius · manipulation · secret agenda

Setting labels: Australia · private school · elite institute · criminal academy · contemporary setting · school setting · prison communication

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Distance: 0.2683

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