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

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

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Has Anyone Seen Jessica Jenkins?

Liz Kessler · 2015

A schoolgirl’s sudden invisibility draws her into a secret circle of kids with powers and a dangerous hidden origin.

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Premise labels: invisibility · superpowers · hidden abilities · kids with powers · ordinary child becomes extraordinary · secret origin · young heroes · friend-led investigation

Setting labels: school setting · middle school · teen contemporary · small-scale reality · lightly fantastical world · local adventure

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Distance: 0.1444

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Harbinger, Vol. 1: Omega Rising

Joshua Dysart · 2013 · Harbinger (2012)

A troubled teen psychic is hunted, recruited into a secret power network, and pushed toward a world-changing conflict.

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Premise labels: superpowered teenager · psychic powers · government pursuit · secret school · secret network · recruitment offer · destiny burden · power with a price · fugitive hero

Setting labels: secret school · secret organization · hidden psychic society · real-world-feeling setting · superhero universe · alternate-reality continuity · urban setting

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Distance: 0.1571

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Bumi

Tere Liye · 2014 · Bumi

A 15-year-old girl who can disappear is pulled into a hidden world where her secret ties to larger clan conflicts.

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Premise labels: hidden power · invisible protagonist · parallel world · secret identity · teenage adventure · gifted trio · clan conflict · coming-of-age

Setting labels: contemporary school life · parallel world · fictional clan system · secondary world

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Distance: 0.1600

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Monsters We Make Vol. 1

CoryxKenshin · 2024 · Monsters We Make

A gifted teen enters an elite academy and is pulled into a secret war against monsters and the corruption behind it.

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Premise labels: monster threat · secret academy · gifted teen · power awakening · hidden corruption · team combat · humanity at risk · music powers

Setting labels: near future · academy setting · school life · corporate power · dystopian future · hidden monster world · urban setting · secret training

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Distance: 0.1604

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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.

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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

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The Gifting

K.E. Ganshert, Katie Ganshert · 2015 · The Gifting

A teen who sees impossible things fears she's losing her mind, until a secretive boy suggests the danger is real.

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Premise labels: hidden powers · gifted teens · supernatural mystery · futuristic society · mental-illness suspicion · forbidden sight · good vs evil · secrets and danger · prophetic dreams · teen outsider

Setting labels: near future · future America · dystopian society · parallel reality · high school setting · mental institution · government-controlled society · anti-religion setting

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Distance: 0.1644

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The Infinite Noise

Lauren Shippen · 2019 · The Bright Sessions

A teen empath in high school learns to manage overwhelming feelings while falling for a classmate who quiets the noise.

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Premise labels: empath powers · therapy · high school romance · secret abilities · self-discovery · first love · emotional overload

Setting labels: high school · contemporary setting · therapeutic setting · fictional superpower world · teen social environment

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Distance: 0.1689

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Spell Robbers

Matthew J. Kirby · 2014 · The Quantum League

A boy at a fake science camp discovers reality-bending powers and gets pulled into a secret war over them.

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Premise labels: science camp · secret powers · reality manipulation · quantum-powered abilities · kid recruited into hidden world · rescue mission · hidden war · power struggle

Setting labels: contemporary America · middle school · after-school club · secret lab · hidden society · science camp · contemporary fantasy

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Distance: 0.1691

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Alliance

Mark Frost · 2035 · The Paladin Prophecy

A teen with emerging powers stays at a secretive school over summer and uncovers deeper truths, betrayals, and danger.

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Premise labels: secret society · chosen teens · special powers · coming-of-power · hidden conspiracy · quest for answers · friend-or-foe · good versus evil · superpowered students · mystery uncovering · summer investigation

Setting labels: boarding school · summer break · secret campus · underground city · caves and caverns · hidden world · modern setting · off-campus quest

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Distance: 0.1734

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The Mysterious Benedict Society

Trenton Lee Stewart · 2008 · The Mysterious Benedict Society

Four gifted children are recruited for a secret mission at a ruleless school where puzzles, codes, and danger await.

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Premise labels: gifted children · secret mission · undercover school · logic puzzles · codebreaking · world threat · misfit team · hidden tests · adventure quest · child spies

Setting labels: contemporary reality · school setting · boarding school · secret underground tunnels · island setting · hidden lairs · classroom world · slightly fantastical reality · slightly futuristic reality · fictional institute

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The Prisoner of Cell 25

Richard Paul Evans · 2011 · Michael Vey

A bullied teen with secret electric powers uncovers other gifted kids and a conspiracy that targets them all.

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Premise labels: secret powers · electric powers · gifted teens · bullied outcast · hidden identity · quest for answers · kidnapped mother · secret experiment · powerful organization

Setting labels: high school · Meridian High School · Idaho · California · Pasadena · contemporary world · modern day · secret facility · academy setting

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Joshua Dread

Lee Bacon · 2012 · Joshua Dread

A middle school boy with supervillain parents must hide his own powers and team up with unexpected friends to save them.

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Premise labels: supervillain parents · secret identity · discovered powers · school life · friendship across sides · save the parents · villain kidnapping

Setting labels: middle school · school setting · small town · secret world · superhero world · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.1841

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