I am a seventh grader and I myself have Synesthesia. This book really helped my understand what other people with Synesthesia feel like. For instance, not all people with it have the same colors or images. Like Mia, I have trouble in math. We were studying integers earlier this year, (negative and positive numbers) and my teacher handed me blue circles and red circles to demenstrate. She said that the red circles would represent the negative numbers and the blue circles would represent the positive numbers. That was confusing. For me, negative was grayish and dull, while positive was red like fire with orange highlites. After that I could not use my synesthetic mind to anwser the questions she was giving. I felt exactly how Mia felt and at some point in time everybody found out that I had Synesthesia. I was laughed at. I would reccomend this book to anybody willing to read it for it's wonderful explaination on the life of a poor girl with Synesthesia.