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Assassin of Reality

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko

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Premise labels used: magical education, reality manipulation, language magic, coming-of-age, return to school, world-threatening powers, failed exam, second chance, special student

Themes labels used: fear, freedom, free will, agency, humanity, identity, self-actualization, language and reality, metaphysics, comprehension and incomprehension, love vs fear, collective vs individuality, truth and perception, mistakes and correction

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School of Shards

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 2025 · Vita Nostra (English)

A magic-school provost must repair a reality she reshaped, training new students while speech itself begins to fail.

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Premise labels: magic school · language magic · reality shaping · world collapse · teacher student reversal · saving the world · next generation · mystery curriculum

Themes labels: language and reality · fear and love · free will · sacrifice · education · identity · transformation · responsibility · truth and perception · consequences · communication breakdown · meaning-making · metaphysical philosophy

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Vita Nostra

Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko · 2018 · Vita Nostra (English)

A coerced teen enters a terrifying secret school where studying remakes reality, identity, and the self.

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Premise labels: magical school · coerced training · hidden curriculum · mysterious mentor · metaphysical education · transformation · forced selection

Themes labels: transformation · language · identity · fear · free will · vulnerability · power and control · education · knowledge · metaphysics · existence · self-discovery · coming of age · oppression · love and fear · humanity

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A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · 2004 · Earthsea Cycle

A gifted boy enters a wizard school, unleashes a shadow, and must learn true power through balance and self-knowledge.

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Premise labels: young wizard · magic school · coming of age · shadow pursuit · true names · balance of power · wizard training · self-discovery · redemption

Themes labels: self-knowledge · balance · responsibility · power and consequence · hubris · identity · maturity · good and evil · restraint · patience · fear and courage · knowledge · moral choice · acceptance of darkness · nature of self

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Elites of Eden

Joey Graceffa · 2017 · Children of Eden

A brainwashed elite girl begins to uncover her real identity in a controlled future society built on lies.

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Premise labels: hidden identity · memory loss · brainwashing · false reality · artificial world · second child · elite school · underground resistance · restricted society · identity crisis · love triangle · state control

Themes labels: identity · memory · individuality · control · freedom · surveillance · manipulation · resistance · truth vs lies · environmental damage · ecology · social inequality · class divide · self-discovery · sacrifice · human nature · belonging · choice · love is love · brainwashing

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Evil Genius

Catherine Jinks · 2005 · Genius

A lonely child genius is groomed for villainy at a secret academy, then starts questioning who he is and who to trust.

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Premise labels: gifted child · evil school · criminal training · world domination · child hacker · hidden parentage · moral awakening · lonely genius · manipulation · secret agenda

Themes labels: good and evil · identity · morality · free will · coming of age · alienation · trust · manipulation · power · responsibility · belonging · isolation · nature vs nurture · control

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Glitch

Heather Anastasiu · 2012 · Glitch

In an emotionless underground society, a glitching teen hides forbidden powers while risking deactivation and rebellion.

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Premise labels: mind control · emotion suppression · individual awakening · teen resistance · secret powers · hidden anomaly · controlled society · forbidden feelings

Themes labels: individuality · free will · emotions · identity · control · resistance · choice · truth · surveillance · dehumanization · freedom · coming of age · morality

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Mirror Gate

Jeff Wheeler · 2018 · Harbinger

Four years later, two young women face imperial succession, dangerous magic training, and a spreading war across worlds.

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Premise labels: royal succession · political intrigue · magic school · coming of age · class divide · war brink · plague threat · intertwined destinies · hidden powers · dual protagonist

Themes labels: self-doubt · facing fears · choices and consequences · power and corruption · classism · elitism · social inequality · responsibility · leadership · identity · destiny · truth · hope and despair · courage · justice · family · change · maturity · personal growth · free will · trust and betrayal · religious undertones · moral formation

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The Girl Who Could Fly

Victoria Forester · 2008 · Piper McCloud

A girl who can fly is sent to a secret school for exceptional kids, where friendship and danger collide.

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Premise labels: girl with powers · special ability · secret school · hidden talent · outcast child · ordinary world intrusion · gifted children

Themes labels: individuality · self-acceptance · difference · conformity · identity · belonging · freedom · courage · defiance · friendship · loyalty · morality · humility · acceptance of others · anti-diversity · normality · power and control · spirit over oppression · truth versus lies

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The Gate Thief

Orson Scott Card · 2013 · Mither Mages

A teen gate-mage juggles mythic power, rival factions, and high school while forces from two worlds close in.

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Premise labels: chosen one · power struggle · exiled mages · hidden powers · mythic reinterpretation · school life and magic · family conflict · world-threatening stakes

Themes labels: power and responsibility · sex and morality · free will · good vs evil · identity · adolescence · religion and myth · temptation · family loyalty · control and manipulation · duty · coming of age

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So You Want to Be a Wizard

Diane Duane · 1983 · Young Wizards

Bullied library kid Nita finds a wizard manual and joins another novice in a secret, science-inflected quest to save reality.

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Premise labels: young wizard · wizard training · mysterious book · school bullying · world-saving quest · alternate world · scientific magic

Themes labels: bullying · friendship · courage · responsibility · choice · compassion · sacrifice · good vs evil · entropy · preserving life · environmentalism · knowledge · books and reading · self-discovery · growing up · death and loss · care for living things

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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.

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

Themes labels: time and memory · consequence · adolescence · identity · fear and phobia · psychology · future vs present · loss · responsibility · coming of age · reality vs dream · science and ethics · nostalgia · cherishing the present

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Absolute Green Lantern, Vol. 1: Without Fear

Al Ewing · 2025 · Absolute Green Lantern (2025)

A sealed small town, alien judgment, and a reworked Lantern mythology force unlikely survivors into a cosmic mystery.

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Premise labels: mythology reinvention · small-town lockdown · alien judgment · cosmic mystery · alternate continuity · power transformation · missing powers

Themes labels: judgment · fear · willpower · control · identity · reconstruction · mystery · cosmic horror · free will · enlightenment · alienation · truth and concealment

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