Jamie Dacyczyn's Reviews > The Secret Language

I read this book over and over as a kid. I'm not sure exactly what appealed about it, but I loved it anyway. It's just about a couple of girls at a boarding school who become friends, and have regular kid "adventures" like planning a midnight feast, building a house in the woods, inventing a secret language, ec.

One thing that is still relevant to this day is that it's one of the few books where a character has synesthesia, though it's not really discussed as such in the book. I have gender-personification synesthesia, which basically means that my brain assigns distinct personalities and genders to numbers and letters. I never thought it was odd, because in this book one of the characters talks about which numbers are boys and which are girls (though as a kid, I remember thinking that I thought the genders were different than those that she said). So, I just assumed that everyone thought the way that this character and I did.