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Farewell Summer

Ray Bradbury

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

Premise labels used: coming of age, youth vs age, time and aging, small-town conflict, war metaphor, resistance to change, last days of summer

Setting labels used: small town, Midwest, Illinois, fictional town, summer-to-fall transition, October, late summer, school town

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Stranger Things: Lucas on the Line

Suyi Davies · 2022 · Stranger Things

Lucas Sinclair’s own voice fills the gap between seasons, tracing high school, racism, friendship strain, and change.

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Premise labels: character study · identity crisis · high school transition · race and belonging · friend group drift · basketball team · peer mentor

Setting labels: 1980s · small town · Midwest · high school · fictional town · rural town · white majority town · school setting

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Distance: 0.2211

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The Fourteenth Goldfish

Jennifer L. Holm · 2014 · The Fourteenth Goldfish

An eleven-year-old’s life changes when her scientist grandfather reverses aging and lands in middle school with her.

Why this is here

Premise labels: reverse aging · fountain of youth · scientist grandfather · middle school adjustment · family change · science curiosity

Setting labels: middle school · home life · scientific lab · present day · urban/suburban

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Distance: 0.2360

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Superman for All Seasons

Jeph Loeb · 2002 · Superman: For All Seasons

A seasonal, four-voice retelling of Clark Kent’s early path toward becoming Superman, rooted in Smallville and family.

Why this is here

Premise labels: origin story · coming of age · identity struggle · dual life · early hero

Setting labels: Smallville · Metropolis · Kansas town · rural America · American heartland · small-town to city transition · fictional reality

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Distance: 0.2468

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Supergirl: Being Super

Mariko Tamaki · 2018 · Supergirl: Being Super

A teen girl with hidden superpowers must confront grief, secrets, and her alien past to choose where she belongs.

Why this is here

Premise labels: origin story · coming of age · secret identity · hidden powers · alien identity · dual belonging · small-town life · teen life · family secret · mystery past · loss and grief · powers in flux · choose a world

Setting labels: small-town America · Midwestern town · farm setting · high school · present day · Earth · Krypton · alternate continuity · noncanonical story · Elseworlds · modern setting

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Distance: 0.2491

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The Strange Fascinations of Noah Hypnotik

David Arnold · 2018

After a hypnotic encounter, a teen notices tiny changes in everyone around him and starts questioning reality and his future.

Why this is here

Premise labels: hypnosis · altered reality · teen existential crisis · coming of age · identity crisis · search for self · college decision

Setting labels: suburban · high school · senior year · Illinois · contemporary · present-day · home life · school social circle

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Distance: 0.2510

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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

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Distance: 0.2524

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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

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Distance: 0.2550

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Lukkertid

Maja Lunde · 2023

When human time stops but nature keeps moving, six lives are forced to confront birth, death, love, and meaning.

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Premise labels: time stoppage · human stasis · thought experiment · endless time · end of aging · no birth · no death · body vs time · life and death

Setting labels: contemporary · summer setting · June setting · worldwide · realist world

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Distance: 0.2584

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We Hexed the Moon

Mollyhall Seeley · 2026

Four best friends hex the moon during their last summer together, and the moon comes down demanding a sacrifice.

Why this is here

Premise labels: friend group · hexing ritual · moon personified · coming of age · last summer · friendship crisis · sacrifice quest · end-of-world stakes · teen rebellion · identity crisis

Setting labels: island setting · small town · summer after graduation · pre-college summer · teen sleepover · 2020s · hot August · ordinary world with magic · contemporary setting · liminal adulthood

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Distance: 0.2589

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The Girl and the Glim

India Swift · 2017

A shy new kid at school discovers only she can see mysterious creatures tied to fear, friendship, and danger.

Why this is here

Premise labels: new kid · new school · bullying · hidden creature · supernatural ally · fear and anxiety · identity · belonging

Setting labels: new town · new school · school setting · home setting · woods · modern world · contemporary setting

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Distance: 0.2598

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The Shade of the Moon

Susan Beth Pfeffer · 2013 · Last Survivors

A post-apocalyptic teen must choose between enclave privilege and loyalty to his family in a harsh new class system.

Why this is here

Premise labels: post-apocalyptic society · class divide · enclave society · survival after catastrophe · family split · moral dilemma · coming of age

Setting labels: post-apocalyptic Earth · Tennessee · Pennsylvania (origin) · grub town · enclave · shantytown · safe town · future society

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Distance: 0.2600

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The Forevers

Chris Whitaker · 2021

With a month left before an asteroid ends the world, a misfit teen hunts the truth behind her friend’s death.

Why this is here

Premise labels: asteroid impact · end of the world · countdown · small town crisis · suspicious death · consequence-free behavior

Setting labels: small town · coastal town · high school · pre-apocalyptic future · present-day contemporary reality

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Distance: 0.2631

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