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I’ve read a lot of middle-grade fiction, but this one actually made me feel like I was inside Mia’s head, not just watching her story. The way her brother’s hamburger chart and her sister’s antics are woven in made the family feel so real. I finished it in two sittings because I couldn’t put it down

The way Mia’s synesthesia is described, with colors attached to sounds and letters, felt so real I caught myself trying to picture my own name that way. It’s a rare book that makes you feel seen while telling a story this warm and weird. My eleven-year-old finished it in two sittings, and we’ve alre

I’ve read a lot of middle-grade books where the main character feels like a cardboard cutout, but Mia’s synesthesia is woven into the story in such a specific, sensory way that you really feel what she’s going through. The way her brother’s burger chart is described as a totally normal family quirk