I believe this was a childrens book. I would have read it about 10 years ago.  The main character was a girl who could change her appearance when concentrating on herself in the mirror. This is later explained as her shifting around in more than three dimensions. She at some point tries to point at something she sees in a higher dimension, and another character says her arm turns red and disappears. She at one point finds a hypersphere that she can "fold" into higher or lower dimensions that she carries around with her which helps her use her powers.   She is part of a group of four children with different such power that start out trapped in a house and unaware of their powers and origins. They work differently, one boy turns into a metallic dragon-like creature and is then semi-killed/reborn via magic bacteria/nanomachines.
The series had three books.  A universe of Greek gods/goddesses, set in modern time.    The gods steal Titans and force them to assume the form of infants/children, and raise them as mundanes in a boarding school type situation.  The protagonist is a young woman who discovers she can travel through the fourth and fifth dimensions as her power.  Her companions: a fey, can travel by unseen ways to various locations; a boy-shaman raised under the traditions of science, can cause anything he wants to happen simply by wishing it and tries to recreate the Michelson–Morley experiment. She ultimately discovers the true nature of the universe she is in and that the deities all follow some sort of rock-papers-scissors system where each deity has a corresponding type which he is weak to, and strong against.  What is the name of this series?
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