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Margaret Peterson Haddix

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Premise labels used: time travel mission, missing child, identity mystery, history rescue, kidnapped children, predestination dilemma

Setting labels used: 1918 Russia, Russian Revolution, imperial Russia, 20th century history, 21st century, historical reality

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Caught

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2012 · The Missing

A time-traveling pair is sent to 1903 to protect history, but Einstein’s family makes the mission far more complicated.

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Premise labels: time travel · history repair · missing child · historical rescue · time freeze · hidden history · historical mystery · family stakes

Setting labels: early 1900s · 1903 · 20th century · 21st century · Switzerland · Bern · school · Einstein household · historical real-world setting

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Distance: 0.2204

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Gideon the Cutpurse

Linda Buckley-Archer · 2006 · The Gideon Trilogy

Two modern children are flung into 1763 England and must recover a stolen machine to get home.

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Premise labels: time travel · kids stranded in the past · lost return device · recovery quest · fish-out-of-water · cross-century encounter

Setting labels: 18th century England · 1763 · 21st century England · London · English countryside · historical reality

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Distance: 0.2279

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Авиатор

Eugene Vodolazkin, Евгений Водолазкин · 2016

An amnesiac man wakes in 1999 and rebuilds his identity through diary fragments from a life shattered by history.

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Premise labels: amnesia · memory recovery · time displacement · cryogenic freezing · post-Soviet return · historical reckoning · identity search · survival

Setting labels: St Petersburg · hospital · early 20th century Russia · post-Soviet Russia · 1999 · Russian Revolution · Stalin era · Soviet labor camp

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Distance: 0.2324

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The Storm Begins

Damian Dibben · 2011 · History Keepers

Kidnapped in stormy London, a boy joins time-traveling agents to find his missing parents and stop history from being rewritten.

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Premise labels: missing parents · secret society · time travelers · history protection · time mission · family search · history alteration · world-saving quest · kidnapped protagonist · secret identity

Setting labels: London · 19th century France · 16th century Venice · historical Europe · present day · time travel · alternate history · historical adventure

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Distance: 0.2326

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The Last Beginning

Lauren James, Wren James · 2016 · The Next Together

A queer teen uses a time machine to uncover her family’s hidden past and untangle a love story spread across history.

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Premise labels: family mystery · time travel mission · lost parents · reincarnation mystery · love across time · identity search · future rescue · history puzzle

Setting labels: near future · historical periods · time travel · alternate timeline · dystopian elements · United Kingdom · Scotland · university setting · scientific lab · future society · historical battles

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Sent

Margaret Peterson Haddix · 2009 · The Missing

A time-traveling group of kids must protect two royal boys in 15th-century England without breaking history.

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Premise labels: time travel · fixed timeline · identity reveal · lost children · history correction · historical mystery · rescue mission · kidnapped from time

Setting labels: 15th century England · 1483 · medieval England · historic London · Battle of Bosworth · Tower of London · 21st century · time travel world · alternate timeline

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Distance: 0.2386

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The Observer Effect

Nick Jones · 2022 · Joseph Bridgeman

A reluctant time traveler joins a future-run rescue mission in 1873 Paris, where a burning opera house and shifting timelines collide.

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Premise labels: time travel mission · missing person · future organization · observer effect · past-vision gift · reluctant hero · team mission · historical rescue · timeline repair

Setting labels: present day · 19th century Paris · 1873 Paris · opera house · future society · time travel universe · parallel timeline · historical reality

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Distance: 0.2390

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Atomic Anna

Rachel Barenbaum · 2022

A Soviet scientist’s accidental time jumps bind three generations of women to one chance to stop Chernobyl.

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Premise labels: time travel · nuclear disaster · family repair · second chances · prevent catastrophe · generational legacy · scientific ethics · save family

Setting labels: Soviet Union · Philadelphia · Russia · USSR · Berlin · Chernobyl · 1990s · 1960s · 1980s · 20th century · wartime Europe · immigrant community

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A History of What Comes Next

Sylvain Neuvel · 2021 · Take Them to the Stars

An alien mother-daughter line secretly steers the space race, while a ruthless enemy hunts them across history.

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Premise labels: space race · secret society · alien influence · mother-daughter pair · hidden history · knowledge preservation · survival mission · first contact thriller · progress at any cost

Setting labels: World War II · postwar Europe · Cold War · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · Germany · Russia · United States · space race · ancient history · ancient times · alternate history · speculative reality

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Distance: 0.2467

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20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 1

Naoki Urasawa · 2018 · 20世紀少年 [20th Century Boys]

A childhood game resurfaces decades later, drawing an ordinary man into a slow-burn conspiracy that may end the world.

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Premise labels: doomsday cult · childhood secret · world-saving quest · return of a symbol · adult childhood reckoning · conspiracy mystery · apocalyptic threat · ensemble mystery

Setting labels: 1960s Japan · 1990s Japan · late 20th century · turn of the millennium · cross-generational setting

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Distance: 0.2477

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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.

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

Setting labels: dystopian future · post-apocalyptic world · time loop world · futuristic city · small-town to city journey · Polish setting

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Distance: 0.2499

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Elfangor's Secret

K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate · 1999 · Animorphs

The Animorphs chase a time-manipulating enemy across human history, where each fix may cost one of their own.

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Premise labels: time travel · alternate history · time matrix · history rewriting · timeline repair · wartime mission · save the world · anti-invasion

Setting labels: alternate timeline · human history · wartime settings · battlefields · 20th century · medieval period · modern day · Earth

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Distance: 0.2503

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