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Operation Do-Over

Gordon Korman

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

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

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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

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1402

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Orange: The Complete Collection, Volume 1

Ichigo Takano · 2016 · Orange: The Complete Collection

A shy high schooler gets a letter from her future self urging her to save a new classmate from a tragic fate.

Why this is here

Premise labels: future letter · time travel · save a friend · change the future · regret · second chance · prevent tragedy · future self

Setting labels: high school · eleventh grade · school life · Japan · Matsumoto · contemporary · alternate timeline · parallel universe · future and present

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1430

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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: 0.1609

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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: 0.1809

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UnHappenings

Edward Aubry · 2015

A young man whose life keeps rewriting itself chases the cause of his erased past and a risky future love.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · retroactive change · alternate timeline · butterfly effect · lost relationships · doomed love · future self · time paradox · personal stakes · memory of original timeline

Setting labels: future period · present-adjacent future · time travel universe · alternate reality · academic setting · laboratory setting

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1871

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You and Me on Repeat

Mary Shyne · 2025

Two former friends relive graduation day in a time loop, forcing them to rethink love, friendship, and the future.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time loop · graduation day · former friends · second chance · perfect kiss · rekindled friendship · unexpected romance · do-over

Setting labels: high school · graduation day · small town · present day · school setting · electronic store · suburban setting · looped reality

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.1891

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Opposite of Always

Justin A. Reynolds · 2019

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

Premise labels: time loop · second chances · love and loss · preventing death · choices and consequences

Setting labels: high school · college transition · party setting · contemporary setting · present day

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Distance: 0.1998

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Portal

Imogen Rose · 2010 · Portal Chronicles

A tomboy hockey player wakes in an alternate life as a cheerleader and must untangle what changed—and why.

Why this is here

Premise labels: alternate reality · time travel · identity swap · double life · family mystery · hidden portal · changed life · second chance · parallel world · teen romance

Setting labels: California · New Jersey · alternate dimension · alternate universe · past and present · high school · teen world · suburban

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Distance: 0.2020

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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: 0.2038

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The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver

Shawn Inmon · 2016 · Middle Falls Time Travel

A guilt-ridden man dies by suicide and wakes in his teenage body, given one strange chance to redo his life.

Why this is here

Premise labels: second chance · do-over · life reliving · time travel twist · midlife reset · teenage body, adult mind · redo the past · change the future · prevention mission · redemption arc

Setting labels: 1970s · 2016 · high school · small town · middle America · analog era · nostalgic past · contemporary frame · multiple timelines

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Distance: 0.2072

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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: 0.2089

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The Locket

Stacey Jay · 2011

A teen gets a magical do-over after cheating on her boyfriend, but changing one mistake scrambles everything.

Why this is here

Premise labels: time travel · second chance · mistake correction · love triangle · teen relationship

Setting labels: high school · contemporary

Semantic match: ranked by premise + setting

Distance: 0.2107

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