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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Vol. 1: BFF

Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder

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

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

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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Yasutaka Tsutsui · 2017

A schoolgirl discovers time-leaping abilities and, alongside a second story about fears, confronts memory, consequence, and change.

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

Themes labels: 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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Wally Roux, Quantum Mechanic

Nick Carr · 2019

A teen genius in Savannah finds a space-time glitch that turns his awkward coming-of-age into a quantum adventure.

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Premise labels: boy genius · space-time anomaly · quantum physics · self-discovery · identity · alternate realities · adoption · coming of age

Themes labels: identity · belonging · self-discovery · adoption · race · bullying · puberty · loneliness · family · culture shock · growing up · misunderstood genius · parentage · alternate choices

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Parallel

Claudia Lefeve · 2011 · Travelers

An orphan with hidden powers is pulled into a parallel reality where family, identity, and time are all unsettled.

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Premise labels: orphan protagonist · foster care · alternate reality · hidden identity · powers awakening · wrong reality · family reunion · chosen one · parallel worlds · time travel

Themes labels: identity · belonging · family · fate · safety · secrecy · trust · self-discovery · alternate lives · free will · consequences · adolescent angst · class divide · social exclusion

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Perilous Waif

E. William Brown · 2017 · Alice Long

An unusually gifted orphan flees a controlled upbringing and finds herself pulled into a dangerous far-future crew.

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Premise labels: orphan protagonist · hidden powers · on the run · spacefaring escape · underdog ascent · coming of age · mystery identity · body modification

Themes labels: identity · self-discovery · coming of age · freedom · personhood · AI rights · transhumanism · ethics of modification · sexuality · loyalty · agency · survival · social prejudice · slavery · power and responsibility

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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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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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Stranger Things: Rebel Robin

A.R. Capetta · 2021 · Stranger Things

A queer 1980s teen tries to fit in, then realizes the only escape she needs is becoming herself.

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Premise labels: coming of age · self-discovery · closeted teen · gay awakening · small-town escape · prequel backstory · identity quest

Themes labels: identity · self-acceptance · queer awakening · belonging · conformity · difference · adolescence · acceptance · coming out · friendship · small-town pressure · escape · high school alienation · authenticity

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Stuck

Chris Grabenstein · 2020

An 11-year-old’s wish to stay young traps him in repeating fifth grade while everyone else keeps growing up.

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Premise labels: time loop · stuck in time · birthday wish · wish backfires · age suspension · repeating school year · growing up fear · bully avoidance · world ages without protagonist · selfish wish consequences

Themes labels: growing up · change · consequences · selflessness · gratitude · fear of adolescence · bullying · identity · letting go · maturity · time passing · life lessons

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Wander Dust

Michelle Warren · 2011 · The Seraphina Parrish Trilogy

A teen discovers she can time travel and is drawn into a secret society, a strange school, and a risky love choice.

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Premise labels: time travel · secret society · boarding school · special abilities · team dynamics · mystery identity · search for mother · forbidden romance · coming of age

Themes labels: identity · self-discovery · family estrangement · parental neglect · grief · loyalty · betrayal · trust · destiny · choice · growing up · finding belonging

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Portal

Imogen Rose · 2010 · Portal Chronicles

A tomboy hockey player wakes in an alternate life as a cheerleader and must untangle what changed—and why.

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Premise labels: alternate reality · time travel · identity swap · double life · family mystery · hidden portal · changed life · second chance · parallel world · teen romance

Themes labels: identity · belonging · choice · family relationships · trust · self-discovery · free will · regret · love versus duty · memory · reality · consequences · change · coming of age

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Padawan

Kiersten White · 2022 · Star Wars Disney Canon Novel

A young Obi-Wan Kenobi breaks from Jedi supervision on a solo mission and confronts a Force-charged mystery.

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Premise labels: coming of age · self-discovery · solo mission · mentor conflict · forbidden exploration · Force sensitivity

Themes labels: coming of age · identity · self-worth · belonging · purpose · faith · the Force · balance · environmentalism · nature and civilization · family · abandonment · anxiety · duty · freedom · choice · transformation · morality · queer identity · adolescence

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The Taking

Kimberly Derting · 2014 · The Taking

A teen returns after five missing years unchanged, and must uncover what happened while her world moved on without her.

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Premise labels: alien abduction · missing time · memory loss · returnee · special powers · identity crisis · lost life

Themes labels: change · identity · loss · moving on · trust · belonging · fate · acceptance · free will · memory

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