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Premise labels used: time loop, second chance, lost love, childhood reset, memory retention, quest narrative

Setting labels used: fictional town, small town, military school, school setting, afterlife, parallel worlds, dimension shifts, multiple timelines, childhood setting, adult life revisited

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Life Is Strange Vol. 3: Strings

Emma Vieceli · 2020 · Life is Strange Comics

Max must confess her true origin and face alternate realities while fighting to get back to the Chloe she lost.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · alternate realities · multiverse · identity reveal · homecoming quest · truth confession · romantic reunion · search for missing love

Setting labels: small-town setting · high school age · alternate timelines · parallel reality · fictionalized world · video game universe

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1587

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Mixed Up

Gordon Korman · 2023

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

Premise labels: memory swapping · memory loss · identity exchange · grief recovery · found friendship · mystery solving · body-switching trope

Setting labels: same town · different sides of town · different schools · middle school · post-pandemic · contemporary · real-world setting · light fantasy · science fiction element

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Distance: 0.1670

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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.

Why this is here

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

Setting labels: middle school · fifth grade · elementary school · school year · birthday setting · contemporary setting · time loop reality · age-progressing world

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Distance: 0.1734

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Timepiece

Myra McEntire · 2012 · Hourglass

A teen empath must hunt a dangerous enemy while time fractures worsen and his own powers expand.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time disruption · past threatens future · ultimatum · missing enemy · time powers · time gene · team quest

Setting labels: small-town setting · Southern setting · contemporary setting · time travel world · alternate timeline · space-time continuum

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1756

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Operation Do-Over

Gordon Korman · 2022

A science-minded middle schooler gets a chance to redo the past and save a friendship before it all falls apart.

Why this is here

Premise labels: second chance · do-over · time slip · broken friendship · lost friendship · mistaken choices · alternate timeline · reset life · avoid the past · change the future

Setting labels: middle school · high school · seventh grade · senior year · school fair · contemporary setting · parallel reality · time travel world · school community

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Distance: 0.1809

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A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel

Hope Larson, Madeleine L'Engle · 2012

A girl, her brother, and a friend cross space and time to find her missing father and face a cosmic darkness.

Why this is here

Premise labels: missing parent · rescue mission · space-time travel · interdimensional journey · cosmic threat · family quest · child heroes · mysterious guides · good vs evil · coming of age

Setting labels: small-town family life · Earth · other worlds · space · time travel · alternate dimension · planetary setting · cosmic setting · fictional universe

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1871

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The Stolen Chapters

James Riley · 2016 · Story Thieves

Amnesia, missing chapters, and a race to save a friend pull three kids into a meta mystery between books and reality.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory loss · book jumping · fiction vs reality · stolen memories · rescue mission · time limit · secret identity · book within book

Setting labels: present day · fictional worlds · nonfictional world · alternate reality · library setting · interworld travel · book world · metafictional reality

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1900

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Takopi's Original Sin

Taizan 5 · 2023 · タコピーの原罪 [Takopī no Genzai]

A naive alien uses time travel to try to save a bullied fourth grader, but each fix deepens a tragic spiral.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alien visitor · happiness quest · time travel · bullying · child trauma · broken home · suicide · misguided help

Setting labels: Earth · school setting · home setting · elementary school · childhood world · alien world · dystopian atmosphere · contemporary setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1901

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Forgotten

Cat Patrick · 2011 · Forgotten

A teen who forgets each day but sees the future must navigate love, secrets, and a dark mystery.

Why this is here

Premise labels: memory loss · future memories · notes to self · hidden condition · romantic complication · family secrets · mystery hook

Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · suburban family life · school scenes · home scenes · teen social world · modern day · psychological realism

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1906

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Life Is Strange Vol. 6: Settling Dust

Emma Vieceli · 2022 · Life is Strange Comics

Max must cross timelines to reclaim her life and the woman she loves before an overwhelming threat takes everything away.

Why this is here

Premise labels: timeline crossing · alternate timeline · multiverse · return home · reunion quest · emotional closure · happy ending · found family

Setting labels: alternate reality · multiple timelines · Arcadia Bay · modern day · small-town setting · post-disaster aftermath · cross-dimensional reality

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1911

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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.

Why this is here

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

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1921

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Time's Edge

Rysa Walker · 2014 · The Chronos Files

A teen time traveler races to recover keys across shifting timelines while family, romance, and history collide.

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Premise labels: time travel mission · timeline repair · race against time · world-saving quest · memory divergence · cult conspiracy · alternate timeline · retrieval quest

Setting labels: contemporary · historical periods · alternate timeline · time travel world · United States · Georgia · Chicago · school setting · past and present

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1930

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