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Yasutaka Tsutsui

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

Themes labels used: time and memory, consequence, adolescence, identity, fear and phobia, psychology, future vs present, loss, responsibility, coming of age, reality vs dream, science and ethics, nostalgia, cherishing the present

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Clockwise

Elle Strauss · 2011 · Clockwise

A shy teen time traveler’s secret life in 1860 gets complicated when her crush is pulled into the past with her.

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Premise labels: time travel · teen protagonist · forced travel companion · secret ability · high school romance · past-and-present double life · civil war era · historical encounter

Themes labels: identity · belonging · self-esteem · coming of age · history and change · racial inequality · slavery · civil rights · prejudice · family instability · social class · survival · secrecy · adaptation · romantic awakening · dual life · consequences of time travel

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Paper Girls, Volume 2

Brian K. Vaughan · 2016 · Paper Girls

Four paper girls land in 2016 and search for a missing friend while confronting older selves, rivals, and time-travel chaos.

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Premise labels: time travel · future self · missing person · friendship under pressure · girls on the run

Themes labels: fate · growing up · identity · regret · future self · friendship · trust · perception of the future · coming of age

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Distance: 0.1528

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Geminiderne

Nanna Foss · 2020 · Spektrum

A frightened teen with dangerous powers and family turmoil is pulled into time travel, secrets, and a cross-era romance.

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Premise labels: time travel · superpowered teens · group of friends · mystery investigation · hidden abilities · danger from unknown pursuers · forbidden romance · family crisis

Themes labels: friendship · love · fate · choice · time travel paradox · consequences · identity · growing up · self-discovery · family breakdown · trust · communication · fear of harm · morality · change the past · trauma · mystery

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The First State of Being

Erin Entrada Kelly · 2024

In 1999, an anxious boy meets a teen time traveler and gets pulled into a race between future knowledge and present life.

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Premise labels: time traveler · Y2K anxiety · future knowledge · present focus · teen from future · future secrets · friendship · coming of age

Themes labels: living in the moment · fear of future · anxiety · trust · growing up · choice and consequence · history and memory · kindness · responsibility · present tense living · family hardship · grief · self-improvement · environmental concern · uncertainty

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The Time Bubble

Jason Ayres · 2021 · The Time Bubble

Two teens find a time bubble in a tunnel, and a harmless secret becomes a fast-escalating problem.

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Premise labels: Time portal · Time bubble · Future jumps · Teen discovery · Missing person · Police suspicion · Accidental travel · Doubled duration · Time anomaly

Themes labels: Time travel · Time dilation · Consequences · Survival · Love · Coming of age · Responsibility · Trust · Secrecy · Authority mistrust · Individual significance · Future implications · Modern life references · Climate change · Morality

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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Vol. 1: BFF

Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder · 2016 · Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

A preteen genius tries to stop her own transformation, but a time-lost dinosaur turns her plan into chaos and friendship.

Why this is here

Premise labels: young genius · dinosaur sidekick · time travel · hidden powers · identity struggle · fear of transformation · misfit protagonist · science adventure

Themes labels: identity · self-acceptance · agency · change · puberty fear · being misunderstood · representation · belonging · science · destiny vs choice · personal autonomy

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The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare

M.G. Buehrlen · 2015 · Alex Wayfare

A teen outcast discovers her visions are past-life time travel—and someone is hunting her across time.

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Premise labels: past lives · time travel · reincarnation · soul travel · hidden identity · mysterious mentor · secret power · outcast heroine

Themes labels: identity · self-discovery · choice and consequence · fate · memory · reincarnation · change the past · belonging · family responsibility · trust · power and corruption · coming of age

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Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time Travel Adventure

Georgia Byng · 2006 · Molly Moon

An orphan hypnotist and her pug are pulled into a tangled time-travel adventure in India with multiple versions of herself.

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Premise labels: time travel · hypnosis · kidnapping · orphan heroine · evil tyrant · power escalation · alternate selves

Themes labels: time · identity · selfhood · fate · cause and effect · memory · growing up · power · religion · colonialism · culture shock · trauma · self-doubt · agency

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Cały ten czas

Hania Czaban · 2022

A teen in a time-looped future travels to uncover her parents’ fate and the truth behind the endless storm.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time loop · missing parents · journey to the city · time travel · mystery quest · science-driven mystery

Themes labels: time · memory · identity · truth-seeking · loss · science and belief · free will · future vs past

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Ik kom hier nog op terug

Rob van Essen · 2023

A journalist gets a chance to undo the past through time travel, but the remedy opens a stranger, deeper reckoning.

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Premise labels: time travel · second chances · change the past · guilt · memory · past mistakes · revisiting youth · hidden trauma

Themes labels: memory · guilt · regret · nostalgia · identity · truth and fiction · repression · trauma · time · fate · free will · meaning of life · belonging · group membership · self-deception · unresolved past · storytelling

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One Word Kill

Mark Lawrence · 2019 · Impossible Times

A teen math prodigy with leukemia and a D&D friend group gets pulled into a time-travel mystery that could save a girl.

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Premise labels: time travel · teenage genius · terminal illness · D&D group · save the girl · future visitor · impossible mystery · coming of age · multiverse

Themes labels: friendship · mortality · coming of age · grief · choice and consequence · fate · identity · memory · adolescence · living with illness · self-sacrifice · love · courage · physics and free will

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X Lives of Wolverine/X Deaths of Wolverine

Benjamin Percy · 2022 · X Lives of Wolverine/X Deaths of Wolverine

Wolverine is thrown through his own past while a second timeline follows Moira’s dangerous turn after Inferno.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · past selves · future self · timeline threat · protect the future · ancestral danger · body possession · identity conflict · parallel storylines · mutant crisis

Themes labels: memory · regret · identity · legacy · free will · time and consequence · fatalism · violence and survival · mutation · family responsibility · manipulation · transformation · corruption · comic continuity

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Distance: 0.1637

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