The whole bus was within range, so they knew there were no thought waves beaming from my head. Two senior boys leered from the back row. I grabbed a sticky seatback to keep from falling on three girls deep in mental conversation. With a soft hiss of water exhaust, the bus lurched forward. Which was great, until I needed a seat on a crowded bus. As long as I didn’t touch an exposed arm or speak out loud, the blank spot of my mind would go unnoticed in the swirling sea of their thoughts. Two years of being the Invisible Girl had taught me a few things. I shuffled past the dead-silent rows, avoiding backpacks and black instrument cases. Students crammed the bus, which stank of too many bodies baking in the early morning heat. Yeah, junior year was off to a fantastic start already. The driver’s mental command whooshed the door closed behind me. I gripped my backpack and gym bag tighter and climbed the grime-coated steps. Nobody trusted a zero to begin with, but scowling back would only make the driver more suspicious. Her attempt to read my mind would get her nothing but the quiet of the street corner where I stood. The hunched driver wrinkled a frown before I even got on the bus. Terry Lynn Johnson, author of Dogsled DreamsĪ zero like me shouldn’t take public transportation. A story that had me imagining what if, long after I finished it.” I was fully invested in this inventive world and the protagonist. “Open Minds boils with action, adventure, and surprises.

Michelle Davidson Argyle, author of Monarch and Cinders Read this and you’ll never look at your thoughts the same again.” When you can literally control the thoughts of others, how far will you go? Quinn takes the reader to this reality with breathtaking control and sparkle. Quinn has created an intensely dangerous world both inside the minds of her characters and outside-a world that left me asking myself questions I would never have asked before.

“Open Minds pushed me to the edge of my imagination and then tossed me over the edge as I screamed for more. Who always believed in me more than I did.Īnd who never once tried to mind control me.

For information visit Summary: Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore can’t read minds in a telepathic world, but soon discovers she can control them instead and is slowly dragged into an underworld of dangerous mindjackers.Ĭover and Interior Design by D. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Text copyright © 2011 by Susan Kaye Quinn

Open minds by susan kaye quinn