An adorable tale which should be just right for that special pre-teen, giving them inspiration to live their "highest right" without seeming preachy, portraying a society in which each person's choices are respected.
Actually, it was just perfect for this older adult. Sometimes I get so involved in my tasks, I forget my purpose (p. 341) ( )

It is very difficult to question ourselves, especially when we don’t know if what we are doing is right or wrong. This book will make you question everything. It’s an exciting book that asks you to think differently. “What if the world around you is just a mirror image of what you think? What would happen if you decided to change your thoughts?” This book has profound concepts that have the power to change your life. I loved reading it, read it as many times as you can.

Is the world in our mind, and not outside?
What if we see about us are reflections of what we think is so?
What's reflected when we decide to change our thought?

Here I stand today, bored at last to stone with dramas about evil, films about war and malice and crime. I promised that if I had to watch one more prison scene, one more aggression, one more gigantic spectacular stupendous explosion on screen, fiction or non, I'd walk out and rebuild the universe.
-- BOOM! --
What if something happened, I got to wondering as I walked away, and a culture grew up without evil, without crime or war? What would it do with all energies that we squander on our destructions?
How would it feel to live in a world where we choose our highest right and not our darkest wrong, where we lift each other instead of always and ever putting each other down?
How could such a civilization begin, and where would it go?
So was born Curious Lives, the story of a doomed civilization that returned to life upon the single act of one individual.