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These books are ranked using the premise labels extracted for Genius Squad.
Premise labels used: foster care, identity uncertainty, protective custody, hacking team, secret organization, teen investigators, conspiracy takedown, forced alliance, recruitment trap, coming-of-age
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A teen hacker on the run joins forces with a rich-boy hacktivist to expose a deadly conspiracy targeting forgotten kids.
Why this is here
Premise labels: teen hacker · foster care survivor · off the grid · kidnapping · medical conspiracy · human experimentation · runaway teens · corporate secrecy · hacktivism · identity concealment
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1359
A fledgling found family hides out at school while secrets, clones, and betrayal push them toward another escape.
Why this is here
Premise labels: escaped experiments · superpowered teens · fugitive group · secret school · hidden identity · family-in-hiding · betrayal among allies · mission pressure
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1717
A teen girl is drafted into a secretive military program where training, puzzles, and lies reveal a deeper conspiracy.
Why this is here
Premise labels: forced recruitment · teen draft · controlled society · secret war · training facility · coming-of-age
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1847
A stressed teen warrior’s family crisis triggers morphing failures just as his team targets a TV recruiter's alien propaganda.
Why this is here
Premise labels: secret war · family stress · recruitment scheme · undercover mission · morphing problems · public exposure risk
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1851
A bloodied, memory-blurred teen in care confronts surveillance, trauma, and the possibility of an experiment watching her.
Why this is here
Premise labels: care system · foster care · juvenile detention · troubled teens · missing memory · surveillance · identity crisis · institutional abuse · runaway teen · survival
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1870
A secluded teen’s world collapses when she learns her mother was lying about everything, and the sea may hold the answers.
Why this is here
Premise labels: hidden identity · kidnapped child · family secret · search for truth · identity mystery · coming-of-age under pressure · forced relocation · conspiracy mystery · genetic secret · water connection
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1889
An amnesiac teen must trust a stranger to uncover her identity and escape the secret experiment behind her powers.
Why this is here
Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · genetic experimentation · psychic weapons · teen super-soldiers · elite team · weaponized teens · identity mystery · fugitives
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Distance: 0.1924
A bullied girl’s acne cure makes her invisible, thrusting her into secrets, danger, and a search for who she really is.
Why this is here
Premise labels: invisibility · body image · bullying · family secret · identity search · friendship · coming of age · medical mishap · secrecy
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1981
A hawk-bodied teen faces a family trap, a rescue mission, and a shattering truth about who he really is.
Why this is here
Premise labels: identity crisis · hidden parentage · family secret · false relative · territorial conflict · rescue mission · morphing dilemma · normal life temptation · found family
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1997
A bullied teen with secret electric powers uncovers other gifted kids and a conspiracy that targets them all.
Why this is here
Premise labels: secret powers · electric powers · gifted teens · bullied outcast · hidden identity · quest for answers · kidnapped mother · secret experiment · powerful organization
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2014
A sheltered teen from a teleporting family discovers her own powers and pushes into school, friends, and danger.
Why this is here
Premise labels: teleportation · coming of age · secret ability · overprotective parents · teen independence · high school life · family under threat
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2025
A detective questions a murder suspect whose confession points to a far stranger explanation than a simple killing.
Why this is here
Premise labels: police interrogation · murder confession · conspiracy theory · possible alien possession · online paranoia · domestic unraveling · insidious revelation
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2032
