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Maximum Ride, Vol. 4

NaRae Lee, James Patterson

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Premise labels used: escaped experiments, superpowered teens, fugitive group, secret school, hidden identity, family-in-hiding, betrayal among allies, mission pressure

Setting labels used: school setting, safe house, lab escape, alternate reality, manga adaptation setting

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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: 0.1877

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Fugitive Six

Pittacus Lore · 2018 · Lorien Legacies Reborn

A teen team with alien powers hunts a mole and a secret enemy as their school fractures into rival sides.

Why this is here

Premise labels: superpowered teens · alien invasion aftermath · academy training · kidnapping rescue · secret organization · mole hunt · factions split · power struggle

Setting labels: academy setting · post-invasion Earth · near future · secret school · global conflict · dystopian Earth

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Distance: 0.1956

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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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Distance: 0.2018

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Bumi

Tere Liye · 2014 · Bumi

A 15-year-old girl who can disappear is pulled into a hidden world where her secret ties to larger clan conflicts.

Why this is here

Premise labels: hidden power · invisible protagonist · parallel world · secret identity · teenage adventure · gifted trio · clan conflict · coming-of-age

Setting labels: contemporary school life · parallel world · fictional clan system · secondary world

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Distance: 0.2023

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The Visitor: The Graphic Novel

K.A. Applegate, Michael Grant · 2021 · Animorphs Graphix

Rachel infiltrates a controller’s home, uncovering dangerous truths while Earth’s teen resistance fights an alien invasion.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alien invasion · parasitic aliens · secret defense · morphing powers · infiltration mission · teen resistance

Setting labels: Earth · secret invasion · suburban home · school setting · fictional alien conflict

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Distance: 0.2041

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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: 0.2081

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Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 2

Jason Aaron, Nick Bradshaw · 2012 · Wolverine and the X-Men (2011)

Wolverine leads a mutant school through space-gambling schemes, alien-body battles, and nonstop crises to keep it alive.

Why this is here

Premise labels: mutant school · school funding crisis · space heist · body invasion · alien infestation · ensemble team-up · student-teacher dynamics · deadly school threat

Setting labels: mutant school · space casino · intergalactic setting · school campus · microscopic interior setting · outer space · Marvel Universe · alien environments · off-world

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Distance: 0.2107

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Alliance

Mark Frost · 2035 · The Paladin Prophecy

A teen with emerging powers stays at a secretive school over summer and uncovers deeper truths, betrayals, and danger.

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Premise labels: secret society · chosen teens · special powers · coming-of-power · hidden conspiracy · quest for answers · friend-or-foe · good versus evil · superpowered students · mystery uncovering · summer investigation

Setting labels: boarding school · summer break · secret campus · underground city · caves and caverns · hidden world · modern setting · off-campus quest

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Distance: 0.2134

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Joshua Dread

Lee Bacon · 2012 · Joshua Dread

A middle school boy with supervillain parents must hide his own powers and team up with unexpected friends to save them.

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Premise labels: supervillain parents · secret identity · discovered powers · school life · friendship across sides · save the parents · villain kidnapping

Setting labels: middle school · school setting · small town · secret world · superhero world · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.2138

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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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Distance: 0.2155

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New X-Men, Vol. 4: Riot at Xavier's

Grant Morrison, Frank Quitley · 2006 · New X-Men (2001)

At a mutant school under pressure, a radical student and his allies spark a dangerous revolt that tests every boundary.

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Premise labels: mutant discrimination · school sanctuary · student uprising · teen rebellion · mutant revolution · internal conflict · authority challenge · drug-fueled escalation

Setting labels: mutant school · academy setting · campus unrest · near-future mutant world · human-mutation tension · sanctuary under siege · superhero school

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Distance: 0.2173

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Spell Robbers

Matthew J. Kirby · 2014 · The Quantum League

A boy at a fake science camp discovers reality-bending powers and gets pulled into a secret war over them.

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Premise labels: science camp · secret powers · reality manipulation · quantum-powered abilities · kid recruited into hidden world · rescue mission · hidden war · power struggle

Setting labels: contemporary America · middle school · after-school club · secret lab · hidden society · science camp · contemporary fantasy

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Distance: 0.2179

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