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These books are ranked using the characterization labels extracted for The Girl Who Leapt Through Time.

Characterization labels used: teenage girl, schoolgirl, boy best friend, teacher figure, passive protagonist, flat characters, one-dimensional characters, likable protagonist, young characters, teen protagonists, phobia-stricken protagonist, brother character, unusual abilities, mystery seeker

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Cover of Anna and the Apocalypse by Katharine Turner

Anna and the Apocalypse

Katharine Turner, Barry Brandon Waldo · 2018

A Scottish teen and her friends fight to survive a zombie outbreak that erupts just as Christmas break begins.

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Characterization labels: teen protagonist · straight-A student · witty heroine · final girl · best friend · unrequited crush · nice guy · annoying boy · protective father · vice principal villain · assistant principal villain · bullies · one-dimensional characters · flat characterization · character growth · redemption arc · courage under pressure · ordinary teen · sympathetic character

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1500

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Shiny Happy People

Clay McLeod Chapman · 2025

A traumatized teen investigates a viral party drug that makes her town eerily perfect—and dangerously not themselves.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: teen girl protagonist · adopted protagonist · anxious protagonist · straight-edge protagonist · outsider protagonist · new kid ally · mysterious outsider · perfectionist · smart protagonist · controlling protagonist · traumatized protagonist · loner

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1439

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The Named

Marianne Curley · 2005 · Guardians of Time

A teen Guardian must train a new apprentice while battling a secret force that tries to rewrite history.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: teen protagonist · mentor figure · apprentice · immortal character · female apprentice · young hero · traumatized protagonist · secretive characters · flat characters · underdeveloped characters

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1527

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The Map of Tiny Perfect Things

Lev Grossman · 2021

A teen stuck in a summer time loop finds another trapped soul, and together they hunt for the day’s tiny perfect moments.

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Characterization labels: teen protagonist · male protagonist · female lead · lonely characters · curious characters · awkward teens · self-contained protagonist · reflective character arc

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1537

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No Mistakes

Vasily Mahanenko · 2020 · World of the Changed

A hyped mobile game turns Earth into a lethal RPG, and one student must survive long enough to save his sister.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: student protagonist · young adult protagonist · older sibling caretaker · loner hero · emotionally flat protagonist · resourceful protagonist · lucky protagonist · passive protagonist · flat side characters · thin characterization

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1579

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Cover of Hazards of Time Travel by Joyce Carol Oates

Hazards of Time Travel

Joyce Carol Oates · 2018

A punished teen from a surveilled future is exiled to 1950s Wisconsin, where identity, love, and reality blur.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: teen protagonist · naive heroine · curious student · meek protagonist · passive protagonist · outsider · rebellious student · intelligent girl · controlled subject · love interest · authority figure · psychology instructor · exiled student

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1579

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Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction #1

Inio Asano · 2015 · デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション [Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction]

Two bored high school girls keep living their everyday lives under a silent alien mothership over Tokyo.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: teenage girls · high school students · cynical teens · bored youths · alienated youth · relatable girls · quirky characters · oddball characters · cynical protagonist · conspiracy theorist · shut-in · everyday teens · charismatic best friend · emotionally burdened mother · missing father · pervy teacher

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1586

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Seckry Sevenstars and the City of the Falling Sky

Joseph Evans · 2011 · Seckry Sequence

A relocated teen in a futuristic city stumbles into a corporate secret, a missing girl, and a mystery that upends his life.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: teen protagonist · kind-hearted hero · shy protagonist · curious protagonist · brave protagonist · protective protagonist · flat characters · memorable side characters · mentor figure · villainous corporation

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1601

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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.

Why this is here

Characterization labels: teenage protagonist · gifted student · reluctant student · domineering mentor · scary teachers · morally grey characters · isolated protagonist · resilient heroine · authoritarian authority figures

Semantic match: ranked by characterization

Distance: 0.1609

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