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  <title><![CDATA[A Mango-Shaped Space]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;i&gt;Everyone thinks I named my cat Mango because of his orange eyes, but that's not the case.  I named him Mango because the sounds of his purrs and his wheezes and his meows are all various shades of yellow-orange...&lt;/i&gt;

Thirteen-year-old Mia Winchell appears to be the most normal kid in her family.  Her younger brother, Zack, keeps a chart of all the McDonald's hamburgers he's eaten in his lifetime.  Her older sister, Beth, dyes her hair a different color every week and might be a witch.  But Mia knows she is far from ordinary.  She is keeping something from everyone who knows her: the fact that sounds, numbers, and letters have color for her.  When trouble in school finally convinces Mia to reveal her secret, she feels like a freak.  Her family and friends have trouble relating to her as she embarks on an intense journey of self-discovery.  By the time she realizes she has isolated herself from all the people who care about her, it is almost too late.  She has to lose something very special in order to find herself.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Mango-Shaped Space (2003) is a novel by Wendy Mass. This brilliant book is about Mia, a thirteen year old girl living with synesthesia. Her synesthesia causes her problems in school, with friends, and just having her parents understand her. For example, Mia first experiences ridicule at the hands ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23588289">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's what I like about A Mango-Shaped Space by Wendy Mass: The plot is extremely interesting and really, for lack of a better word, new. Mass talks about a condition that most people have never even heard of and she just runs with it.<br/><br/>Here's what I don't like: Mass is at pains throughou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4973371">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's what I wrote in an email to my former professors, the ones who taught me that synesthesia existed.  I have a Master's in gifted &amp; creative education, and many gifted &amp; creative people have synesthesia just as the protagonist in this story does.  <br/><br/>In any case, below is the email I s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4269086">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is great! I actually read it because my sister is a middle school teacher who reads lots of young adult books to recommend to her students and she told me I had to check this one out.<br/><br/>I'm only a few years shy of being twice Mia the narrator's age, but found her to be awesome. De...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26058526">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought a stack of books at Borders yesterday, and I bought a book that I have wanted for quite a bit. I’m even thinking about using this as our next book club book (after A Great and Terrible Beauty).<br/><br/>A Mango Shaped Space tells the tale of Mia Winchell (what an awesome name!) , a secr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11693128">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My reading preferences tend to gravitate towards the fantastic/magical/otherworldly, but for a realistic fiction novel, this book has a lot going for it. <br/><br/>Quick synopsis: Mia is different than everyone she knows.  For years she's kept a secret - she sees colors in sounds and letters and w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19025420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a random book I came across in my local Library and when I started reading I just couldn't put it down.  The book's main character is a girl who has synesthesia, a crossing of sensory nerves.  Some people hear certain colors when they see them or people will get certain tastes in their mout...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3078047">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Mango-Shaped Space is the story of Mia, a thirteen-year-old girl with synesthesia (she sees letters, numbers and sounds as having colors and/or shapes). I had never heard of synesthesia before reading this book, and learning about it was interesting enough on its own. Combined with what's going on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14762045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The cover of this book caught my eye at Borders and once I started reading I immediately fell in love with Mia, the narrator, and her story.  This book is amazingly well written and the character development is so thorough. It's a funny book that deals with very real issues of growing up with a twis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24923461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second book I've read that revolves around Synthesthesia, and much like the condition manifests itself quite differently in the people it affects, this story was quite different than the other.<br/><br/>The first difference was that in this book, our main character had this condition her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44285066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Have you ever considered the possibility that not everyone views colors in the same way you do? That some people associate colors with sound and numbers?Synesthesia is a medical condition that causes the visual cortex in the brain to be activated when the person hears something.  Mia, the main chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39954069">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mia seems like the most normal child in her family. Her older sister Beth changes her hair color and her diet every week. Her younger brother Zack believes a bunch of odd superstitions and keeps a chart to count every hamburger he's ever eaten. But there is something about Mia that she has tried to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76362994">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mass, Wendy.  A MANGO-SHAPED SPACE.  (2003).  **.  By the time some books get to me from the library, I forget why I ordered them in the first place.  This is one of those books.  It’s a first novel geared for the young-adult reading group.  It tells a thirteen-year-old girl, Mia, who is a synesth...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67588770">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Note: I borrowed A Mango-Shaped Space from a friend of mine. She said that it was really good. I wanted to see it for myself. She was right.<br/><br/>A Mango-Shaped Space is about thirteen-year-old Mia, having a rare condition called Synesthesia. This means that she sees letters, numbers, and words ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65966606">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Spoiler Alert!!!<br/><br/>Semua orang mungkin memiliki keanehan yang tidak disadarinya. Setidaknya aneh menurut orang – orang yang menganggap dirinya normal. <br/><br/>Sebelumnya Mia juga menganggap dirinya normal. Setidaknya Mia tidak mengganti warna rambutnya setiap minggu seperti kakaknya B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44032332">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A sweet teen novel.  What interested me was that the main character has synesthesia, which is this (strange to those who don't' have it) &quot;neurologically-based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15668054">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great story!  I never knew anything about synesthesia until I read this book.  This is the first children's/YA book I've ever read on it, yet there must be hundreds of children out there who suffer from it.  Some picture books are needed on this subject as well.  I highly recommned this book for any...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12985146">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely a YA book; reminded me of a Judy Blume one or the like.  I was very interested in learning about synesthesia and I was expecting more of a non-fiction type novel.  The book seemed more focused more on childhood maturation and relationships- first kisses and best friends.  Some YA novels a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38775824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mango-Shaped Space introduces us to a condition (because it isn't a disability, but rather something that you have or don't have, like brown eyes) that many people are unaware of and then teaches us all about how it impacts the life of one girl.  I found it to be a quick but fascinating read and wou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7241282">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been waiting for a book like this, ever since I became fascinated by the condition called synesthesia; the crossing of the senses.  This novel, more than any research paper or psychologist's journal conveys the beauty and struggle of this unique condition.<br/><br/>Mia doesn't understand at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74445206">more...</a>]]></body>
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