More Than Human
Misfit children with psychic gifts form a shared consciousness and must decide what power, identity, and humanity mean.
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Characterization labels used: gifted child, child genius, bullied child, outcast, sensitive child, single mother, struggling parent, evil scientist, manipulative adult, authority figure abuse, peer friendship, twin characters, child protagonist, young teen protagonist, relatable children
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A Wind in the Door
Meg must help save her gifted, bullied brother by journeying into a strange inner world where love, naming, and evil collide.
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Ender's Game, Volume 1: Battle School
A gifted child is recruited into a brutal space academy to train for humanity’s next war against aliens.
The Boy Who Fell from the Stars
A frail 12-year-old boy joins children sent from a space station to confront dragons and save humanity.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
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The School for Whatnots
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Shadows in Flight
Genetically engineered children on a relativistic voyage search for a cure, then encounter an alien mystery in deep space.
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A teenage hacker with a new family must stop the criminal mastermind who raised him before targeted attacks destroy everything he loves.
Middlegame
Two gifted twins, secretly engineered through alchemy, are drawn toward an impossible destiny that could remake reality.
Evil Genius
A lonely child genius is groomed for villainy at a secret academy, then starts questioning who he is and who to trust.
A Wrinkle in Time
A bullied girl, her gifted brother, and a friend cross space-time to rescue a missing father from cosmic evil.