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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Farewell Summer.
Setting labels used: small town, Midwest, Illinois, fictional town, summer-to-fall transition, October, late summer, school town
Focused on “childhood setting” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
Two boys and a weary father face a sinister carnival that preys on longing, fear, and the wish to change time.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · Midwestern town · Illinois · Halloween season · autumn · fictional town · library
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1126
Lucas Sinclair’s own voice fills the gap between seasons, tracing high school, racism, friendship strain, and change.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1980s · small town · Midwest · high school · fictional town · rural town · white majority town · school setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1655
A teenage park guardian and a prophet-haunted wanderer face a demon’s hidden plan in a small-town Fourth of July crisis.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · Midwest · Illinois · contemporary world · July 4th weekend · hot summer · park setting · steel town · real-world fantasy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1931
A murdered man wakes up in his childhood body and races through new lives to find the wife he lost.
Why this is here
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 setting
Distance: 0.2266
A teen stuck in a summer time loop finds another trapped soul, and together they hunt for the day’s tiny perfect moments.
Why this is here
Setting labels: summer · town library · small town · high school · one day setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1986
A new girl finds a mysterious bracelet that grants animal powers, drawing her into friends, secrets, and danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: present day · Chicago · Arizona · suburbs · new town · middle school · school life · contemporary setting with speculative elements
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2091
A boy’s summer in a small Illinois town becomes a vivid meditation on childhood, time, and mortality.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · Green Town · Illinois · Midwestern town · 1928 · summer vacation · front porches · small-town America · rural-suburban childhood
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2100
Five abducted kids return eleven years later with no memories, while one sibling hunts for the missing sixth child.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary · small town · school setting · kindergarten · eleven-year gap · teen years later · homecoming setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2112
A grieving teen is blackmailed into a strange school study, where buried truths, old feelings, and new possibilities collide.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · high school · school campus · summer camp · Michigan · teen research study · contemporary setting · speculative reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2114
Two sisters in a strange small town hide a boy who fell from the stars, risking family, secrets, and love.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · rural outskirts · summer setting · atmospheric setting · sentient house · woods · cozy town · close-minded town · celestial / interstellar reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2142
A nerdy small-town teen’s crush on the new quarterback spirals into alien secrets, royal destiny, and danger.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small town · high school · Jewel, Indiana · midwest · Earth · Mars · alien colony · school drama · small-town America · modern setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2165
A grieving teen reopens her father’s alien hunt and finds the truth is far stranger—and darker—than anyone believed.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small-town Iowa · rural Iowa · high school setting · woods · contemporary setting · school environment · present day
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2205
