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Similar in premise + setting

These books are ranked using the premise + setting labels extracted for Stuck. Books rank higher when they are close on every selected axis.

Premise labels used: 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 used: middle school, fifth grade, elementary school, school year, birthday setting, contemporary setting, time loop reality, age-progressing world

This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their premise + setting embeddings are close.

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Cover of Operation Do-Over by Gordon Korman

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.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1402

Cover of The Death and Life of Dominick Davidner by Shawn Inmon

The Death and Life of Dominick Davidner

Shawn Inmon · 2017 · Middle Falls Time Travel

A murdered man wakes up in his childhood body and races through new lives to find the wife he lost.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1734

Cover of Takopi's Original Sin by Taizan 5

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.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1795

Cover of Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 2 by Ichigo Takano

Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 2

Ichigo Takano · 2016 · Orange: The Complete Collection

Future letters push a shy high schooler and her friends to try to save a troubled boy and rewrite regret.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1919

Cover of Lost and Found by Orson Scott Card

Lost and Found

Orson Scott Card · 2019 · Micropowers

A shunned teen with a tiny finding-lost-things power gets pulled into friendship and a dangerous missing-child case.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1982

Cover of Orange 3 by Ichigo Takano

Orange 3

Ichigo Takano, 高野苺 · 2014 · Orange [オレンジ] / Orange: Future [Orange -未来-]

A shy teen receives a letter from her future self and joins friends in trying to change a painful fate.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1996

Cover of タコピーの原罪 上 [Takopī no Genzai 1] by Taizan 5

タコピーの原罪 上 [Takopī no Genzai 1]

Taizan 5, タイザン5 · 2022 · タコピーの原罪 [Takopī no Genzai]

An innocent alien tries to make a bullied child happy, but kindness, trauma, and time travel spiral into tragedy.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2003

Cover of Persephone by Lev Grossman

Persephone

Lev Grossman · 2022

A bullied teen’s buried grief cracks open a hidden power and pulls her toward a secret world she barely understands.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2026

Cover of Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers by Dav Pilkey

Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers

Dav Pilkey · 2013 · Captain Underpants

George and Harold must undo a time-warped history where Captain Underpants never existed.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2052

Cover of If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robbie Couch

If I See You Again Tomorrow

Robbie Couch · 2023

A lonely teen reliving the same day over 300 times meets an unexpected boy whose arrival may change everything.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2059

Cover of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time by Yasutaka Tsutsui

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.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2066

Cover of Losing Me Finding You by Natalie Ward

Losing Me Finding You

Natalie Ward · 2014 · Losing Me Finding You

A leap-day woman wakes in a new life every four years and must find the one man who remembers her.

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2101