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Premise labels used: survival, boarding school, friendship, war setting, school conspiracy, hidden agenda, identity concealment, forced isolation

Setting labels used: future world, dystopian future, war-torn society, boarding school, isolated school, wilderness setting, schoolcamp

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Among the Impostors

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2002 · Shadow Children

A secret third child must survive boarding school undercover while hiding his identity from classmates, teachers, and the state.

Why this is here

Premise labels: false identity · illegal child · undercover student · population control · secret survival · hiding in plain sight · school infiltration · authoritarian regime

Setting labels: boarding school · windowless school · woods · totalitarian society · dystopian future · school grounds

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Distance: 0.1447

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Elites of Eden

Joey Graceffa · 2017 · Children of Eden

A brainwashed elite girl begins to uncover her real identity in a controlled future society built on lies.

Why this is here

Premise labels: hidden identity · memory loss · brainwashing · false reality · artificial world · second child · elite school · underground resistance · restricted society · identity crisis · love triangle · state control

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic future · artificial society · underground refuge · elite boarding school · cave system · city under surveillance · controlled environment · closed society · futuristic world · dystopian future

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Distance: 0.1682

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Run for Cover

Eva Gray · 2011 · Tomorrow Girls

A secretive teen leader and her friends flee a hostile boarding school and race through a war-torn future.

Why this is here

Premise labels: girls on the run · boarding school escape · survival mission · secrets and trust · enemy territory · war setting · group survival · reunion quest

Setting labels: near future · future world · wartime setting · boarding school · wilderness · woods · enemy territory · Canada · Chicago · country retreat · camp · remote school · private school setting

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Distance: 0.1687

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The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1

Kazuo Umezu · 2006 · The Drifting Classroom

An elementary school vanishes into a barren wasteland, forcing children and teachers to survive as order collapses.

Why this is here

Premise labels: school disappearance · transported school · survival ordeal · alien wasteland · lost children · adult breakdown · resource scarcity · mystery premise

Setting labels: elementary school · wasteland · desert landscape · alien world · nightmarish reality · mysterious realm · isolated school

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Distance: 0.1760

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Sky Without Stars

Jessica Brody, Joanne Rendell · 2019 · System Divine

Three teens from different castes in a spacefaring dystopia are drawn into a brewing revolution that could reshape their world.

Why this is here

Premise labels: space retelling · class divide · revolution · secret identity · hidden library · forbidden knowledge · unlikely heroes · survival · political upheaval

Setting labels: space · fictional planet · post-apocalyptic future · dystopian society · class hierarchy · underground refuge · hidden library · futuristic world

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Distance: 0.1796

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The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1

Kazuo Umezz, Kazuo Umezu · 2019 · The Drifting Classroom

An elementary school is hurled into a hostile future wasteland, and the students must survive chaos, monsters, and collapse.

Why this is here

Premise labels: school vanishes · survival horror · stranded class · hostile world · isolated group · children in peril · post-apocalyptic survival · forced leadership

Setting labels: Japanese elementary school · desert wasteland · post-apocalyptic world · far future · hostile world · unknown place · earth in ruins · time-slip setting

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Distance: 0.1802

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The Day the Dead Came to Show and Tell

Mira Grant · 2014 · Newsflesh

A first-grade teacher fights to protect her class when a post-Rising school safety system fails during a zombie outbreak.

Why this is here

Premise labels: zombie outbreak · school lockdown · survival struggle · protect students · teacher hero · institutional failure · public school safety · post-apocalypse aftermath

Setting labels: elementary school · first grade classroom · kindergarten classroom · post-zombie apocalypse · post-Rising world · Seattle · Pacific Northwest · future dystopia · school lockdown

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Distance: 0.1819

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Among the Betrayed

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2002 · Shadow Children

A captured illegal third child must choose between saving herself and betraying three imprisoned children to live.

Why this is here

Premise labels: illegal child · population control · betrayal dilemma · survival choice · imprisonment · identity concealment · false identity · trust test · moral dilemma · resistance movement

Setting labels: dystopian future · totalitarian state · authoritarian government · prison cell · boarding school · forest hideout · boys' school · girls' school · famine-stricken world

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Distance: 0.1831

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Fractured

Teri Terry · 2013 · Slated

An amnesiac teen’s returning memories expose hidden loyalties, dangerous secrets, and a trap set by those she trusts.

Why this is here

Premise labels: erased memories · identity mystery · state control · hidden past · trust nobody · brainwashing · rebellion · double life · secret history · manipulated teen

Setting labels: dystopian future · England · school setting · underground resistance · state surveillance · controlled society · near future

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Distance: 0.1846

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Psion Beta

Jacob Gowans · 2010 · Psion

A fugitive teen discovers latent powers and is recruited into a brutal training program for a hidden war.

Why this is here

Premise labels: special powers · fugitive · training academy · war effort · hidden war · government recruitment · underdog · coming of age · teen fighters · genetic anomaly

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · near future · futuristic academy · training headquarters · secret facility · world war · global war · abandoned store

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E

Kate Wrath · 2014 · E

An amnesiac girl must survive a brutal outpost, evade robotic law enforcers, and uncover who she was.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory loss · erasure · survival struggle · slavery threat · dystopian order · found family · imminent war

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · broken city · walled outpost · harsh urban wasteland · authoritarian society · robotic law enforcement · scarcity-driven society · future frontier

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Rated

Melissa Grey · 2019

In a rating-obsessed future school, six teens from different cliques unite after a cryptic warning upends their lives.

Why this is here

Premise labels: rating system · social mobility · elite school · cryptic messages · unlikely allies · teen conspiracy · status hierarchy

Setting labels: prestigious academy · high school · future society · near-future · dystopian society · school setting

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Distance: 0.1877

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