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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

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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

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1402

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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.

Why this is here

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

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

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1734

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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: 0.1795

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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.

Why this is here

Premise labels: future letters · time travel · fate change · suicide prevention · friendship support · second chance

Setting labels: high school · teen ensemble · present day · future selves · multiple timelines

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1919

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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.

Why this is here

Premise labels: minor powers · finding lost things · misunderstood teen · missing child · outcast protagonist · compulsion to return items · supportive friendship · school ostracism

Setting labels: high school · school setting · contemporary world · our world · police investigation · support group setting · family home

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1982

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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.

Why this is here

Premise labels: future letters · time paradox · change the future · prevent regret · save a friend · love triangle · friend group mission

Setting labels: high school · teen life · present day · future timeline · alternate future

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1996

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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.

Why this is here

Premise labels: innocent alien · happiness mission · bullying · abusive family · traumatized child · time travel · forced happiness · misunderstood emotions · child suffering

Setting labels: Japanese school · middle school · dysfunctional family · contemporary earth · supernatural reality · time travel setting

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Distance: 0.2003

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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.

Why this is here

Premise labels: teen powers · emotional awakening · school bullying · hidden abilities · secret world · coming-of-age · disappearing parent · gifted teens · power eruption

Setting labels: high school · school setting · teen setting · contemporary setting · secret facility · hidden world · speculative reality

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Distance: 0.2026

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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.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · revenge · superheroes · school setting · altered history · villain scheme · restoring the timeline · postapocalyptic future

Setting labels: school · dinosaur age · prehistoric times · future · postapocalyptic planet · caveman times · early universe · ice age · fictional science

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Distance: 0.2052

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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.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time loop · stuck in a loop · repeating day · loneliness · new boy · chance encounter · self-discovery · escape the loop · search for meaning · romantic connection

Setting labels: Chicago · urban setting · high school · therapy office · retail bakery · movie theater · contemporary setting · present day · time loop reality · teen world · school setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2059

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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.

Why this is here

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

Setting labels: high school · school science lab · 1960s · Japan · future society · everyday life · school setting

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Distance: 0.2066

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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.

Why this is here

Premise labels: leap-year curse · memory reset · identity loss · fated lovers · search-and-find romance · childhood friends to lovers · constant reunion

Setting labels: contemporary · multiple cities · multiple homes · multiple identities · leap year · childhood to adulthood

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2101

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