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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Going Wild.
Setting labels used: present day, Chicago, Arizona, suburbs, new town, middle school, school life, contemporary setting with speculative elements
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
An eleven-year-old’s life changes when her scientist grandfather reverses aging and lands in middle school with her.
Why this is here
Setting labels: middle school · home life · scientific lab · present day · urban/suburban
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1504
After a hypnotic encounter, a teen notices tiny changes in everyone around him and starts questioning reality and his future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: suburban · high school · senior year · Illinois · contemporary · present-day · home life · school social circle
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1560
A shy new kid at school discovers only she can see mysterious creatures tied to fear, friendship, and danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: new town · new school · school setting · home setting · woods · modern world · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1591
A teen who forgets each day but sees the future must navigate love, secrets, and a dark mystery.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · suburban family life · school scenes · home scenes · teen social world · modern day · psychological realism
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1694
A boy who can alter reality joins a secret agency to uncover a father’s disappearance and a strange school mystery.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern-day · school setting · coastal setting · small-town setting · alternate realities · supernatural reality · contemporary world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1728
A middle school boy with supervillain parents must hide his own powers and team up with unexpected friends to save them.
Why this is here
Setting labels: middle school · school setting · small town · secret world · superhero world · contemporary setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1747
With a month left before an asteroid ends the world, a misfit teen hunts the truth behind her friend’s death.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · coastal town · high school · pre-apocalyptic future · present-day contemporary reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1753
A teen time traveler races to recover keys across shifting timelines while family, romance, and history collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · historical periods · alternate timeline · time travel world · United States · Georgia · Chicago · school setting · past and present
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1802
A shy teacher stranded in the future must phone a work nemesis to save her past self—and maybe fall in love.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · school setting · high school · New York City · future timeline · present day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1812
An exhausted family welcomes a humanoid AI helper, only to find it acting on their unspoken fears and wishes.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · near-future technology · domestic setting · family home · suburban neighborhood · school setting · workplace stress
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1817
A schoolgirl’s sudden invisibility draws her into a secret circle of kids with powers and a dangerous hidden origin.
Why this is here
Setting labels: school setting · middle school · teen contemporary · small-scale reality · lightly fantastical world · local adventure
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1835
Two former friends relive graduation day in a time loop, forcing them to rethink love, friendship, and the future.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · graduation day · small town · present day · school setting · electronic store · suburban setting · looped reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1858
A teen falls for a girl, loses her, and gets repeated chances to rewind time—at a cost to everyone else he loves.
Why this is here
Setting labels: high school · college transition · party setting · contemporary setting · present day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1860
A 15-year-old boy wakes up invisible and teams with a blind girl while his family races to explain and reverse it.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · school setting · library setting · home setting · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1875
Two middle-school boys start losing their memories to each other and must uncover the strange link before they lose themselves.
Why this is here
Setting labels: same town · different sides of town · different schools · middle school · post-pandemic · contemporary · real-world setting · light fantasy · science fiction element
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1878
A grieving Mexican American teen’s quiet desert life is upended when her missing mother returns via a crashed spacecraft.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Arizona desert · small town · Sonoran Desert · high school · contemporary United States · borderland setting · real world plus speculative elements
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1893
A grieving teen discovers she’s DNA-bound to protect her best friend from a hidden killer—and from her own changing life.
Why this is here
Setting labels: present day · contemporary world · near future · high school setting · summer holidays · alternate reality · normal family setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1907
A hot-headed middle schooler investigates his strange teacher and uncovers monster eggs, alien danger, and HorrorLand chaos.
Why this is here
Setting labels: middle school · teacher's house · attic · basement · classroom · amusement park · theme park · fictional town · contemporary setting · fantastical reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1914
An ordinary volunteer is swept into a cosmic struggle between good and evil, with reality, time, and choices at stake.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · college town · contemporary setting · alternate reality · parallel universes · cosmic reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1915
A lonely kid and a crash-landed amnesiac alien team up to survive school, robots, and a mystery from space.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern-day Earth · school setting · small town · home life · science fictional reality · other dimension · alien world · portal travel
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1936
A normal teen in a superhero city is pulled into a mystery when a masked rescuer everyone calls a villain needs her help.
Why this is here
Setting labels: superhero society · crime-ridden city · high school · school play · contemporary setting · fictional city · urban setting · present-day feel
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1944
After being framed at school, a bullied girl is hurled into a bleak future where her choices have changed everything.
Why this is here
Setting labels: school setting · small town · new town · future world · dystopian future · moors · present day · weather storm · local future
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1949
In a modern alternate universe, mutant youths gather under Xavier while Magneto and the government push the world toward war.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary setting · alternate universe · modern America · Earth-like world · secret-government world · school setting · global setting · urban setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1954
A genre-bending short story collection where portals, marriages, and identity crises expose the costs of escape and desire.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · small town · domestic sphere · boarding school · space · alternate reality · speculative reality · near future · mythic realism
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1964
