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These books are ranked using the premise labels extracted for The Leap Year Gene of Kit McKinley.
Premise labels used: leap-year baby, slow aging, secret condition, genetic anomaly, hidden child, family on the run, identity secrecy, fountain of youth
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A secluded teen’s world collapses when she learns her mother was lying about everything, and the sea may hold the answers.
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Premise labels: hidden identity · kidnapped child · family secret · search for truth · identity mystery · coming-of-age under pressure · forced relocation · conspiracy mystery · genetic secret · water connection
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1658
A childless woman finds a mysterious boy in the woods, and caring for him pulls her into a dark time-travel mystery.
Why this is here
Premise labels: mysterious child · childless couple · parenthood · infertility · sacrifice · future responsibility · time travel · hidden origin · domestic speculative fiction · climate aftermath
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1920
A 15-year-old boy wakes up invisible and teams with a blind girl while his family races to explain and reverse it.
Why this is here
Premise labels: invisibility · blindness · missing child · secret identity · coming of age · disability parallel · finding oneself
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1946
A sheltered teen from a teleporting family discovers her own powers and pushes into school, friends, and danger.
Why this is here
Premise labels: teleportation · coming of age · secret ability · overprotective parents · teen independence · high school life · family under threat
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1960
A teen adoptee gets cryptic warnings that lead him into a time-travel mystery about missing children and hidden origins.
Why this is here
Premise labels: adopted children · mysterious letters · missing children · time travel · identity mystery · government conspiracy · opposing forces · choice under pressure
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2023
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
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2055
Two teens uncover hidden truths about their births and identities while fleeing extremists and a secret genetic conspiracy.
Why this is here
Premise labels: missing father · identity mystery · cloning · genetic engineering · teen on the run · scientific conspiracy · family secrets · birth mystery · fugitives · experimental births
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2118
A teen escaping a dreaded Sweet Sixteen is swept from Florence into Renaissance Italy, where art, family, and romance collide.
Why this is here
Premise labels: time travel · historical fish-out-of-water · birthday pressure · forced celebration · family conflict · secret identity
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2166
Dustin navigates freshman-year change and a science fair mystery while trying to hold his friend group together.
Why this is here
Premise labels: coming-of-age · friendship drift · science fair · solo quest · identity search · change anxiety · school transition · found family
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2181
A hawk-bodied teen faces a family trap, a rescue mission, and a shattering truth about who he really is.
Why this is here
Premise labels: identity crisis · hidden parentage · family secret · false relative · territorial conflict · rescue mission · morphing dilemma · normal life temptation · found family
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2184
A young woman from a family of gods seeks independence, then must face a missing father and her own buried magic.
Why this is here
Premise labels: sibling rivalry · missing person · family secret · independent life · discovery of power · coming of age · divine family · conjoined twins
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2185
A hidden third child in a two-child society risks discovery when he meets another child living in secret next door.
Why this is here
Premise labels: third child · hidden child · population control · forbidden birth · illegal family size · government surveillance · forced secrecy
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2191
