Monday, January 4, 2010

A Mango-Shaped Space

The book I am reading now (actually I finished it already) is called....(drumroll) A Mango-Shaped Space, by Wendy Mass. It's an amazing book. It's about Mia, a 13 year old synthesete. (DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK, I JUST PUT IT THERE. CLICK ON IT AFTER YOU FINISH THE BOOK OR IT WILL GIVE EVERY THING AWAY. ) Did I mention that I don't like giving away endings to really good books? Don't search that word on Google, find the definition of it, or anything like that. Okay, I'll just tell you the prologue. In the prologue, Mia is in third grade. She needs to do a math equation on the board. She thought that if she wrote slowly enough, she wouldn't finish. So, she writes each letter in it's right color....
"Mia!" her teacher says. "This isn't art class. Just use the white chalk.
"But isn't it better to use the right colors?
"What do you mean, the right colors?"
"The colors. The colors of the numbers, you know, like the two is pink, well of course it's not this shade of pink, more like a cotton candy pink, and the four is this baby-blanket blue color, and I...I just figured that it would be easier to do the math problems with the numbers in the right colors. Right?"
And then her teacher gets mad, sends her to the principal, the principal gets mad, tells her mom, mom gets mad, etc. People call her a freak.

That's the summary of the prologue.

These are my thoughts for this book. First, this book is the best book I've ever read. It's really good. You should really read it. Also, why did Mia wait to tell everyone? She should have done it when she was younger. It doesn't make sense. This book is really sad in the end. I really like the meaning of it. You might be wondering why it is called A Mango Shaped Space. Well, Mia has a cat called Mango.