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Premise labels used: Jekyll and Hyde retelling, scientific experiment, college scholarship, family legacy, hidden darkness, cure the monster, dual nature, partnered research, love amid danger, murder mystery

Setting labels used: high school, chemistry lab, Pennsylvania, contemporary setting, American high school, school competition

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The Rules

Stacey Kade · 2013 · Project Paper Doll

A hidden alien-human hybrid must survive high school, a bully, and a dangerous crush without exposing her secret.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alien hybrid · hidden identity · lab escape · life in hiding · dangerous secret · fake dating · revenge plan · bully retaliation · forbidden romance · ordinary life disguise

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 premise + setting

Distance: 0.2674

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Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes · 1987

A man with an intellectual disability undergoes an experiment that transforms his mind, then forces him to face the cost.

Why this is here

Premise labels: intelligence enhancement · experimental surgery · human subject · lab animal parallel · intellectual transformation · mental disability · ethical experiment

Setting labels: laboratory · school · workplace · United States

Reader-connected: no

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2677

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The Locket

Stacey Jay · 2011

A teen gets a magical do-over after cheating on her boyfriend, but changing one mistake scrambles everything.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · second chance · mistake correction · love triangle · teen relationship

Setting labels: high school · contemporary

Reader-connected: no

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2693

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Heartsick

Kristina Forest · 2025

A heartbroken teen intern and her ex uncover a dangerous secret behind a pill that erases heartbreak overnight.

Why this is here

Premise labels: heartbreak cure · second chance romance · exes reunited · corporate conspiracy · teen investigation · ethical dilemma · forbidden medication · on the run · truth uncovering · sci-fi premise

Setting labels: modern day · high school · senior year · Philadelphia · New Jersey · California · cross-country · clinic setting · corporate setting · contemporary America

Reader-connected: no

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2710

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Yasutaka Tsutsui · 2017

A schoolgirl discovers time-leaping abilities and, alongside a second story about fears, confronts memory, consequence, and change.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · accidental powers · mystery figure · teen protagonist · school life · psychological fear

Setting labels: high school · school science lab · 1960s · Japan · future society · everyday life · school setting

Reader-connected: no

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2747

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Dragonfly Girl: A Spellbinding YA Science Thriller About a Cure for Death and Deadly International Rivalry

Marti Leimbach · 2021

A brilliant but socially isolated teen wins a science prize, then a lab discovery pulls her into dangerous international intrigue.

Why this is here

Premise labels: science prodigy · deadly discovery · medical breakthrough · cure for death · undercover lab job · prestigious competition · international rivalry · secrets and lies · financial desperation · girl in STEM · threatened by discovery

Setting labels: high school · laboratory · science competition · Stockholm · Sweden · Europe · California · Russia · international setting · contemporary world · real-world science setting · academic research setting · underground lab · secret lab · ballrooms

Reader-connected: no

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2757

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Forgotten

Cat Patrick · 2011 · Forgotten

A teen who forgets each day but sees the future must navigate love, secrets, and a dark mystery.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory loss · future memories · notes to self · hidden condition · romantic complication · family secrets · mystery hook

Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · suburban family life · school scenes · home scenes · teen social world · modern day · psychological realism

Reader-connected: no

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2805

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As She Climbed Across the Table

Jonathan Lethem · 1998

A professor loses his physicist lover to a strange, selective void created in a campus lab.

Why this is here

Premise labels: love triangle · unrequited love · void entity · created phenomenon · scientific discovery · academic rivalry · relationship disruption · obsession

Setting labels: university campus · physics laboratory · academic environment · California · contemporary setting

Reader-connected: no

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2808

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It Came From the Sky

Chelsea Sedoti · 2020

A teen science nerd and his prankster brother fake an alien invasion, and their small-town lie spirals wildly out of control.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alien hoax · science experiment gone wrong · small-town chaos · brother prank · cover-up · social experiment · fake alien invasion · mass belief

Setting labels: small town · Pennsylvania · family farm · high school · contemporary setting · real-world setting

Reader-connected: no

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2809

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The Temperature of Me and You

Brian Zepka · 2022

A lonely gay teen falls for a mystery boy with fire powers, then gets pulled into secrets, danger, and first love.

Why this is here

Premise labels: first love · queer teen romance · superpowered love interest · secret powers · boy meets boy · mystery boy · fleeing danger · scientific pursuit

Setting labels: suburban Philadelphia · high school · Dairy Queen · contemporary setting · real world with speculative elements

Reader-connected: no

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2829

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G.O.D.S: Gifted. Obedient. Deadly. Students.

Jaye Pratt · 2021 · G.O.D.S

A foster teen with missing memories is pulled into a secret program of weaponized students and a dangerous why-choose bond.

Why this is here

Premise labels: amnesia · memory loss · foster care · secret organization · genetically engineered humans · child soldiers · protective harem · lost identity · mystery note · revenge

Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · current time · secret program · school and foster home space

Reader-connected: no

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2838

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Exposure

Kathy Reichs · 2014 · Virals

A teen pack with dangerous powers investigates a school kidnapping while their own secrets and bonds begin to unravel.

Why this is here

Premise labels: kidnapping mystery · secret powers · pack secrecy · investigation under pressure · experimental virus · shifting bonds · race against time

Setting labels: Bolton Prep · school setting · contemporary setting · teen pack · lab setting

Reader-connected: no

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2844

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