A Mango Shaped Space is a realistic fiction by Wendy Mass about a girl, Mia, who has synesthesia. She feels no one will understand her except for her cat, Mango. She feels like she is crazy and no one can know her “secret,” except her family. Mia doesn’t feel confident in herself to not care what people think about her synesthesia. She feels like people will judge her if they find out and that's why she's hiding it. This book tells Mia’s story and her life with synesthesia and seeing all those colors around her while also trying to fit in and be “normal” at her school. She feels insecure and just wants to “fit in” and “belong.”

I liked this book because it related to me a bit. It was sad and a very interesting story. I feel that it was written like Mia’s journal or diary which was cool because it was like seeing the world from her perspective which is good because it helped me understand more about synesthesia and how life is for someone who has it. Mia’s character is related to me because she feels insecure and like she doesn't belong just because of her synesthesia. The lesson in this book was a good lesson. It talked about normal teenage life and that it’s okay to be different. I learned from this book that synesthesia is a neurologic condition where one sees colors in people’s names or if they hear a sound they see colors. I really enjoyed how Mia had a bond with her cat, Mango. Mango was her best friend and it relates to me of how my cats are like my best friend's kind of. It was a wholesome story about Mia and Mango and Mia’s life is with synesthesia. A Mango Shaped Space is a book that could make people more confident.