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Premise labels used: stranded students, alien world, survival ordeal, school disappearance, mystery setup, survival group, teen cast, backstory reveal

Setting labels used: alien moon, ancient wilderness, high school, suburban Milwaukee, unchartered world, otherworldly forest, primordial wilderness, school play setting, alternate dimension

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Cover of The Woods, Vol. 1: The Arrow by James Tynion IV

The Woods, Vol. 1: The Arrow

James Tynion IV · 2014 · The Woods

A high school vanishes to an alien moon, forcing students and staff to survive monsters, chaos, and power struggles.

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Premise labels: transported school · alien world · survival game · group stranded · mystery setup · power struggle · faction formation · monster threat · school-in-peril · unknown reason

Setting labels: high school · alien planet · moon · otherworldly wilderness · primordial wilderness · suburban Milwaukee · school building · forest · off-world · apocalyptic isolation

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Distance: 0.1206

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Cover of The Woods, Vol. 4: Movie Night by James Tynion IV

The Woods, Vol. 4: Movie Night

James Tynion IV · 2016 · The Woods

A stranded high-school colony must navigate a time jump, political rivalry, and new threats on an alien world.

Why this is here

Premise labels: transported school · lost students · survival colony · new world society · leadership contest · rival factions · resource scarcity · post-apocalyptic community

Setting labels: suburban high school · alien world · ancient wilderness · suburban Milwaukee · post-displacement colony · school-turned-settlement · new planet · primordial wilderness

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1514

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Cover of The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1 by Kazuo Umezu

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

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1611

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Cover of Stray by Andrea K. Höst

Stray

Andrea K. Höst · 2011 · Touchstone

A stranded Australian teen survives an alien world, then learns she may be crucial to a psychic interworld war.

Why this is here

Premise labels: displaced teen · alien planet · survival · portal crossing · rescue by aliens · fish out of water · new identity · power discovery · language barrier · forced integration

Setting labels: alien forest · alternate world · other planet · technologically advanced society · interdimensional gates · multiworld setting · human-like aliens · future tech · psionic world · abandoned world

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Distance: 0.2133

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Cover of Tunnel in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein

Tunnel in the Sky

Robert A. Heinlein · 2005

A survival exam on a remote planet goes wrong, stranding students who must build order, shelter, and leadership from scratch.

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Premise labels: survival test · stranded students · alien planet · frontier colonization · group survival · civilization building · unknown world · transport gate

Setting labels: future Earth · alien planet · interplanetary travel · frontier world · unknown future · colonization era · isolated wilderness · post-overpopulation future

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Distance: 0.2203

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Cover of The Chosen by Taran Matharu

The Chosen

Taran Matharu · 2019 · Contender

A wrongly accused teen is thrust into a deadly, time-warped survival game where history’s remnants and monsters collide.

Why this is here

Premise labels: transported teens · deadly game · survival challenge · mysterious overseers · alternate world · history mashup · lost-in-time · forced competition · wrongly accused teen · fight to survive

Setting labels: boarding school · reform school · juvenile detention · alien world · alternate realm · prehistoric world · history collage · mixed-era setting · ancient ruins · fortress setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2218

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Cover of The Drifting Classroom, Vol. 1 by Kazuo Umezz

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: 0.2234

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Cover of Behind the Gates by Eva Gray

Behind the Gates

Eva Gray · 2011 · Tomorrow Girls

A girls' boarding school in a war-torn future hides secrets, forcing four friends to survive and trust each other.

Why this is here

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

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

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Distance: 0.2240

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Cover of Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 2 by Jason Aaron

Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 2

Jason Aaron, Nick Bradshaw · 2012 · Wolverine and the X-Men (2011)

Wolverine leads a mutant school through space-gambling schemes, alien-body battles, and nonstop crises to keep it alive.

Why this is here

Premise labels: mutant school · school funding crisis · space heist · body invasion · alien infestation · ensemble team-up · student-teacher dynamics · deadly school threat

Setting labels: mutant school · space casino · intergalactic setting · school campus · microscopic interior setting · outer space · Marvel Universe · alien environments · off-world

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Distance: 0.2273

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Rush

Eve Silver · 2013 · The Game

A grief-stricken teen is pulled into a secret, deadly game to fight aliens, with no training and no easy answers.

Why this is here

Premise labels: teens pulled into game · alien invasion · death-match missions · secret war · save the world · parallel reality

Setting labels: contemporary high school · hidden alien war · parallel dimension · video game-like world · time and space travel

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2289

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Cover of 暗殺教室 16 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 16] by Yusei Matsui

暗殺教室 16 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 16]

Yusei Matsui, 松井優征 · 2015 · 暗殺教室 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu]

A late-series volume reveals Koro Sensei’s hidden past, forcing Class 3-E to rethink their mission.

Why this is here

Premise labels: teacher-student conflict · assassination mission · backstory reveal · origin story · save or kill dilemma · doomsday threat

Setting labels: junior high school · classroom setting · school setting · fictional science fiction reality · extraterrestrial being

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2311

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Cover of 暗殺教室 15 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 15] by Yusei Matsui

暗殺教室 15 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu 15]

Yusei Matsui, 松井優征 · 2015 · 暗殺教室 [Ansatsu Kyōshitsu]

A school assassination mission explodes into major secrets, backstories, and a shocking identity reveal.

Why this is here

Premise labels: assassination classroom · teacher-student conflict · school assassination mission · world-threatening teacher · secret identity reveal · revenge plot · backstory reveal

Setting labels: junior high school · alternative school · classroom setting · school play · extraterrestrial beings · science-fantasy world

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2323

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