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Gr 5-8 Mia, 13, has always seen colors in sounds, numbers, and letters, a fact she has kept secret since the day she discovered that other people don't have this ability. Then she discovers that she has a rare condition called synesthesia, which means that the visual cortex in her brain is activated when she hears something. From then on, she leads a kind of double life-she eagerly attends research gatherings with other synesthetes and devours information about the condition, but co...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Thirteen-year-old Mia has a secret: for as long as she can remember, letters and numbers have had colors for her, and sounds have had both colors and shapes. Mia's kept quiet about it ever since she figured out, in third grade, that this makes her pretty freakish. But now she's failing algebra ("normally an x is a shiny maroon color...but here an x has to stand for an unknown number...and there are no maroon-colored numbers") and Spanish (she can't "match the colors of the English words to the new Spanish words"), so she comes ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More