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

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

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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: 0.1691

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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: 0.1949

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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: 0.1997

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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: 0.2077

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The Replaced

Kimberly Derting · 2015 · The Taking

On the run from the NSA, a teen with strange abilities risks everything to rescue the boy she loves.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alien abduction · returned survivors · on the run · search mission · government experiment · secret facility · rescued love interest · identity uncertainty · humanity question · hidden powers

Setting labels: contemporary Earth · government facilities · returned camp · road trip · secret lab · teen camp · shadow government · alien abduction setting

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Distance: 0.2127

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Monsters We Make Vol. 1

CoryxKenshin · 2024 · Monsters We Make

A gifted teen enters an elite academy and is pulled into a secret war against monsters and the corruption behind it.

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Premise labels: monster threat · secret academy · gifted teen · power awakening · hidden corruption · team combat · humanity at risk · music powers

Setting labels: near future · academy setting · school life · corporate power · dystopian future · hidden monster world · urban setting · secret training

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Distance: 0.2155

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Maximum Ride, Vol. 4

NaRae Lee, James Patterson · 2011 · Maximum Ride: The Manga

A fledgling found family hides out at school while secrets, clones, and betrayal push them toward another escape.

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

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

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Distance: 0.2179

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The Girl in the Box: Books 1-3

Robert J. Crane · 2014 · The Girl in the Box/Out of the Box Universe

A sheltered teen discovers hidden powers and a secret metahuman world while hunted by dangerous factions.

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Premise labels: secret powers · abused teen · escaped captivity · metahuman world · hunted heroine · captor pursuit · hidden organizations · coming of age

Setting labels: contemporary world · hidden supernatural world · secret metahuman society · upper midwest · shadow organizations

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Distance: 0.2201

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The Dysasters

P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast · 2019 · The Dysasters

Two teens awaken air powers during a deadly tornado and flee a scientist who engineered them for control.

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Premise labels: genetically engineered teens · elemental powers · weather control · on the run · mad scientist · secret experiment · teen fugitives · power awakening · world domination · chosen pair · superpowered teenagers

Setting labels: contemporary · modern day · American countryside · small town · high school · road trip · secret safe house · real world with powers

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Distance: 0.2210

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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.

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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: 0.2216

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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.

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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: 0.2229

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The Library at Mount Char

Scott Hawkins · 2016

An orphan raised in a secret library must uncover what happened to her godlike guardian as hidden powers collide.

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Premise labels: missing mentor · orphaned disciples · hidden knowledge · power struggle · secret library · godlike teacher · revenge quest · cosmic stakes · found family · apocalyptic conflict

Setting labels: contemporary America · hidden world · alternate reality · secret dimension · isolated library · mythic reality · cosmic scale · suburban setting · liminal space · outside normal time

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Distance: 0.2233

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