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My Name Is Mina (Skellig 0.5)

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Mina loves the night. While everyone else is in a deep slumber, she gazes out the window. In the stillness, she can even hear her own heart beating. This is when Mina feels that anything is possible and her imagination is set free.

A blank notebook lies on the table. It has been there for what seems like forever. Mina has proclaimed in the past that she will use it as a jou...more

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Published October 9th 2012 by Yearling (first published September 2nd 2010)

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May 22, 2012 Ela rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Ela by: Anna

Shelves: carnegie-2012, diaries-letters, dreamy, ya-realistic-fiction

I had to give this a five! Though I thought the first half was a solid three the second half blew me away.
May I say now, if you are currently thinking of reading 'My name is Mina' without reading 'Skellig' I would strongly recommend against it. While 'My name is Mina' would work as a stand alone book I think it adds another level to it having read 'Skellig', and to read 'Skellig' after reading 'My name is Mina' would destroy some of the mystery that is key to 'Skellig'.

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Mar 16, 2013 Megan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: middle-school, a-bit-different, childrens-chapter-books

'My Name is Mina', published in 2010, is a prequel to 'Skellig', published by David Almond in 1998. I read Skellig a very long time ago, and remember loving it, which is why I gave this book a go.

It is the story of Mina McKee - the way Mina plays with words in this book, it's not too far a leap to hear her name in a 'minor key'. The book is written as her journal, and it is presented with different typefaces for different experimentations and playings with words. I wasn't sure I liked this at fi...more 'My Name is Mina', published in 2010, is a prequel to 'Skellig', published by David Almond in 1998. I read Skellig a very long time ago, and remember loving it, which is why I gave this book a go.

It is the story of Mina McKee - the way Mina plays with words in this book, it's not too far a leap to hear her name in a 'minor key'. The book is written as her journal, and it is presented with different typefaces for different experimentations and playings with words. I wasn't sure I liked this at first, but it actually works very well. I like the way perspective is played with in this book. Instead of there being more than one character's perspective, we are told the story through Mina's eyes, but she changes perspective at times, writing about herself in the third person. Events are not told in a linear way, but as and when Mina feels she can tell them.

Mina is being homeschooled at the moment, because of an incident at school on SATS day. Mina is very open about her memory being slightly selective and admits to some embellishment of the incident. I love the way that this means that we have to read it with our peripheral vision, in a sense - we cannot look directly at the scene to know what happened. We need to look at the edges and the hints. This lovely reveal/not reveal leaves scope for interpretation. The incident involves her teacher, Mrs Scullery, and THE HEAD TEACHER, a piece of writing called, 'Glibbertysnark' and Mina's mother being called in to school. We are not told, but that must make Mina about 11 years old, since in the UK the SATS are tested at Year 2 and Year 6.

Mina's father died many years ago, so that her memories of him feel, at times, like dreams...'I half-remembered the smell of his breath and the stubble on his cheek as he kissed me goodnight, the slight roughness of his skin as he stroked my cheek, his voice as he whispered me his Good Night. And I lay with the books around me and the strange half-vague, half-intense memories* inside me, and felt very small indeed.' The asterisk is for a footnote - I am not quite sure how I feel about these. Sometimes they feel like they were written by an older Mina - sometimes they feel a bit contrived -but actually I think that's OK, since this is Mina's journal, and she is very much experimenting with language and who she is, and what everything means...and that can sound contrived at times.

Like one or two other readers of this book, I feel that I didn't fully engage with Mina until about halfway through the book. She doesn't make it easy for you. While I felt her mother was presented as a loving and wise person, I really felt she was not developed at all as a character. Again, this is appropriate - in the sense that children don't question who their parents are, as characters, or their motivations, apart from how they affect the child. There was one moment where we caught a glimpse of Mum's real life, when Mina reflects on her day at Corinthian Avenue (an alternative school), where she 'saw' her father, and she realises it's just possible her mother may have spent some time with Colin Pope. 'When I look back now, I suspect that Mum had her own secret that afternoon...I remember seeing her smile to herself as we drove across the river. Was it Colin Pope? Had she taken the chance to be with him that day, freed from her weird daughter? I suspect she had.'

Once you do engage with Mina, she's kind of stuck like glue...she's very hard to get out of your head. It is well worth taking the time...this is a great read. In many ways I would like to give it five stars, but because it is so hard to get to the point where you commit to the book, I feel I can only give it four.(less)

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Oct 29, 2012 Christina rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: youth

Read this book.

(I was going to leave my so-called review at that, but in truth, there are quite a number of people who won't like this book at all and therefore should not read it. So I decided to expand on my statement a little more. As a disclaimer, I had previously never heard of Skellig beyond seeing the title in a few lists and have no previous exposure to the character Mina nor the author.)

Read this book if:
1. you don't mind making allowances for journal-style writing that includes enthus...more

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May 27, 2012 Big Book Little Book rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Mina is different. Not like other children her age. She tries to do as she is told in school but she can never quite manage it. The other children know she is different and mostly stay away. But Mina likes it like that, at least that is what she tells herself. Homeschooled and isolated, Mina starts a journal. One that talks of school, life and word. Lots of words. It also talks of a family who move in down the road and their son, a boy called Michael.

This is the pr...more Alison for Big Book Little Book

Mina is different. Not like other children her age. She tries to do as she is told in school but she can never quite manage it. The other children know she is different and mostly stay away. But Mina likes it like that, at least that is what she tells herself. Homeschooled and isolated, Mina starts a journal. One that talks of school, life and word. Lots of words. It also talks of a family who move in down the road and their son, a boy called Michael.

This is the prequel to ‘Skellig’. A book that I have yet to read, I almost read the book before I read ‘My Name is Mina’ but in the end decided not to, a decision I’m still not sure about. I do know something about the storyline in ‘Skellig’ and am now very much looking forward to reading. I have a strange feeling I may return to ‘My Name is Mina’ to reread when I have finished it.

I was told my another school librarian that this was perhaps a book about a child, but would be enjoyed more by adults. Whilst I do see her point I would be inclined to disagree. It isn’t for any child, I think it would take a more mature child to read and enjoy this, but they would get so much from it that it would be worth that bit more concentration we would need. Through Almond’s words we are transported into this world of a child who doesn’t quite fit. A child who sees the world in a very different way to the rest of us. Any child/ teenager will no doubt relate to parts of Mina’s personality and may well come away with a greater understanding of other facets of her personality. As an adult working in education I found it fascinating. I liked and admired Mina and hated the idea of her being ‘caged’ by the educational establishment, but at the same time understood how frustrating for the establishment to deal with Mina. A child who isn’t doing as she is asked because she wants to be difficult, or because she is lazy, but because she sees the world in such a different way that she doesn’t know how to do as she is asked. I hope that it will change the way I deal with young people, as I firmly believe that there is a little piece of Mina in all of us.

The journal format of the book, and parts of the way it is written meant that I sometimes found it difficult to follow. I had to go back and check which timeframe I was in sometimes, or even just read ahead and hope that it would eventually become clear. But this is part of the magic of the book, the darting around between time and subjects is part of what really helps you understand who Mina really is, someone who is different, not bad, not wrong, just different.

Verdict: Compelling reading for both children and adults who will come away having learnt a lot, maybe even about themselves.(less)

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Apr 22, 2012 Caren rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children

A prequel to Mr. Almond's award-winning "Skellig", this book is shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal and I think it will certainly give the other entries a run for their money. In fact, the list seems to have some very strong contenders this year, so it should be interesting to see which book is chosen. This book I found to be achingly beautiful. Mina's father has passed away and she is working through her sense of loss, but she is so fortunate to have a close relationship with a very compas...more A prequel to Mr. Almond's award-winning "Skellig", this book is shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal and I think it will certainly give the other entries a run for their money. In fact, the list seems to have some very strong contenders this year, so it should be interesting to see which book is chosen. This book I found to be achingly beautiful. Mina's father has passed away and she is working through her sense of loss, but she is so fortunate to have a close relationship with a very compassionate mother. Mina is an artist, a writer with a great sensitivity to the world around her. I have to say, this book does not give a very positive image of a standard sort of school. For Mina, school is a cage from which, to her great relief, her mother gives her a reprieve. I have a feeling many children could use such a reprieve, had the adults in their lives time to make that happen. Before deciding to homeschool Mina, her mother takes Mina to visit an alternative school, for which Mina is simply not yet ready. The glimpse into that school is intriguing because it is supposedly a school for 'misfits', and yet these children seem so real and with so much to offer. In an old interview with Mr. Almond (found here: http://januarymagazine.com/profiles/a... ), he says he taught children with learning problems three days a week, which gave him an income but allowed him time to write. I wonder if his teaching experiences informed some of his classroom scenes in this book. At any rate, it is pure joy to experience Mina's inner life. Her homeschooling seems to be a mix of John Dewey and a secular Charlotte Mason; in other words, her studies follow her own interests, and her interests are entwined with the natural world around her. Especially, she is fascinated with birds. She spends a lot of time up in a tree in her yard observing a blackbird's nest, or watching the sky, both day and night, from her window. I don't know how you could not be enchanted by Mina, an introspective, precocious child who is so open to life. We realize the time we spend with her is an interlude. She is just poised, as a fledgling, at the edge of the world, observing, and recording her thoughts in her notebook. And such thoughts! They will take your breath away! Here is an example from a lovely walk she took with her mother toward the end of the book: (from pg. 279-280) She [Mina's mother] puts her arm around me. We watch the stars intensify. We stand up and slowly walk on. We follow the footpath. "When you grow up", I said, " do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No", she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are." "Like a baby?" I say. "Yes. Or like a tiny bird, right at the heart of you", she says. "It's not really weak at all. If we forget it's there, we're in deep trouble."
Further on, on page 282, their conversation continues: Mum cups her hands around my head. "Look", she murmurs. "I can nearly hold your whole head in my hands, Mina. Your head holds all those stars, all that darkness, all these noises. It holds the universe." She holds me against her. She rests her head against mine. "Two heads, two universes, interlinked."

This is just a beautiful book. Read it, then pause and drink in its wisdom, and make time to listen to a child this week.
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Mar 29, 2012 Sam Piper rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, carnegie-2012

Just finished My Name Is Mina. Good book, interesting but I don't think it's a winner. It tells the story of Mina from Skellig, essentially recording her thoughts in a journal over the winter / spring before she met Michael. I have a memory of her being quite mysterious and enigmatically in Skellig and was looking forward to hearing her voice.

I have mixed feelings about it: it doesn't feel to me like it is a prequel, more of an extended prologue to Skellig. There was something powerful in her d...more

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Feb 11, 2012 Alison rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: confident-readers-chapter-books

The prequel and companion to the extraordinary Skellig, this is told in Mina's own distinctive voice. Textually it is glorious, using a range of fonts, with some pages blank, some white on black and sometimes Mina tells her story in the third person to distance herself from more difficult memories. I found the story profoundly affecting, sometimes to the point of tears and sometimes laughing aloud, and it is a book that teachers should all read, as a warning to how our results-fixated education...more

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Oct 13, 2011 Chocolate Cupcake rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The bold, eye catching words which you will read on the cover of this fabulous book are both intriguing and unusual. It is in a diary format with abnormal font sizes and styles which change once you are within this book.

You are immediately drawn into My Name is Mina; Almond’s chatty, informal and unique writing is different from anything you have read by him before. He explores topics experienced by many children and brings them out in a new light via the storyteller in the book, a fascinating g...more

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May 30, 2011 Kay Hart rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I am a fan of David Almond's writing for children/young adults. He has such a gift for creating interesting stories with elements of magic realism that explore children who don't quite fit in with society's expectations. He makes their take on the world seem so very much more imaginative than the average.

I first came across the character of Mina when reading Skellig and thus when this book was on display at my local library I just had to borrow it. I have not been disappointed and really enjoye...more

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Jan 30, 2012 Nina Hernandez Taylor rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ya-books

My Name is Mina by David Almond is a prequel to his book, Skellig. It is an unusual book because Mina is an unusual girl. This book is a bit like a stream of consciousness look into Mina's mind. She is very creative and has an "out-of-the-box" way of looking at things. I found it very interesting to look through "her eyes." For instance, her class was supposed to write a story and they were expected to start by writing a plan. Mina wrote her plan, "[b]ut of course when I started to write, the st...more

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Feb 22, 2012 Leslie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012-reads, a-boy-s-shelf, author-of-another-country, inspirational, juvenile, lit-with-a-big-l, middle-school-11-14, most-all-ages-really, natalyas-shelf, part-of-a-series

Do you ever have the urge to write an author and transcriptionally hug and kiss them because of your profound gratitude for their having been born and having written this one particular book? I usually hug the book instead. And I’ve been hugging My Name is Mina the past few days. I should really write those living authors. I should write to David Almond.

I’d heard of My Name is Mina in passing. I think it was in a manner of whispers from the “Lucky Day” shelf in Juvenile Fiction at the Library. I...more

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Aug 08, 2012 Relyn rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: dreamers, journalers, and night owls

Recommended to Relyn by: I love David Almond.

This book was a small miracle. It was a look inside the head and heart of an incredible child. You have to wonder how David Almond knows people so well - how he can inhabit their skins this way? This book is a perfect introduction to Mina, a marvelous character from David Almond's Skellig. However, it doesn't feel like an afterthought, a sequel, or a prequel. It's just a delicious look inside the mind of an incredible girl. You'd almost swear Mina was a living, breathing girl, and he stole peeks...more

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Apr 29, 2012 Anna rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: carnegie-2012, childrens

The basic narrative is that Mina, a quirky homeschooled girl, writes a journal exploring the world and her place in it: the book ends on her first meeting with Michael from Skellig.

For me so far, this should be the Carnegie winner in 2012. I've still to read Everbody Jam and Small Change for Stewart, but this book so far is in a different league to the others (yes even Patrick Ness this year). David Almond's writing is simply beautiful. I had to re-read Skellig as my memory of it was hazy. The b...more

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Nov 14, 2011 Quigui rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"My name is Mina and I love the night. Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep. It’s dark and silent in the house, but if I listen close, I hear the beat beat beat of my heart. I hear the creak and crack of the house. I hear my mum breathing gently in her sleep in the room next door."

So starts this book. I vaguely remembered Mina from Skellig – she was this strange girl who quoted William Blake and was home schooled. The basic reason to getting this book wa...more

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Mar 20, 2013 Audrey rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: jf-ya

Mina isn't like any little girl you've ever met. Some readers have a problem with meeting unlikely characters in books. I'm not of that opinion. If I wanted to meet people, I'd go out. I want to meet characters.

Mina is the epitome of a non-conformist and well-read enough to break into recitations of William Blake at the drop of a hat. Following the recent death of her father, her streak of eccentricity has bloomed into a full-fledged rebellion against the dull routine and petty tyrannies of a sc...more

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Jan 19, 2013 Esther rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

There's no doubt that this is a brilliant story. It's a marvel and Almond has created a truly 'extraordinary' character in Mina. In fact that's the only real problem I had with the book. Is there really a 10/11 year old child like this anywhere? I can imagine a child making a circle with their finger and thumb and looking up at the sky, waiting for something to appear in the nothing (it's not so different to looking for shapes in the clouds) BUT I'm not sure they would then proceed to ask all th...more

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Feb 13, 2012 Dolores rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Extraordinary Fact! All the exclamation points currently in existence in the English language actually APPEAR in this book!! COMPLETELY TRUE!!!! SOOOOO annoying!!!!!!!
I have not read "Skellig." I did not already know Mina; I did not already have an emotional investment in her when I opened this book. I did not find her innermost thoughts to be wonderful and delightful. Mostly I found them boring and annoying and impossibly young. I think, that if this book had started differently, I would have...more

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May 13, 2013 Niral rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: adventure, fiction, may-2013

My name is Mina is a very interesting novel. Mina is an extraordinary girl who has a crazy imagination, and does whatever makes her happy. She decided to write a journal. All Mina needs to write a great story or in this case journal, is a notebook and a pencil. This book is filled with interesting facts which will really get you thinking. Mina's mind if full of thoughts that will astound you.

I picked up this book because of the cover, it was filled with lots of gold writing! It caught my atte...more

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May 24, 2012 Candy Wood added it · review of another edition

Shelves: children-s-ya

It’s not at all surprising that this made both the Guardian and Carnegie lists, though as usual for Almond, it doesn’t really fit any children’s or YA category. Mina is writing in her journal, with wildly differing fonts representing her shifts of voice: sometimes she tells about a past event in third person, sometimes she leaves a page blank or fills it with the most positive words she can think of or writes a concrete or acrostic poem in thick letters that look as though she used a paintbrush,...more

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Nov 15, 2012 Robin rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

At one point, a teacher asks what if he wrote a story in which nothing happens. A short time later, Mina, too, wonders what if there was a story where nothing interesting happens at all. Sadly, someone has written that book and, it is David Almond. Especially sad because Almond's books are often fascinating, puzzling, bothering. And, I like Mina, as a person. She's a gem of a kid who I'd like to know.

"Take a line for a walk.
Find out what you're drawing when you've drawn it.
Take some words for a...more

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Jul 31, 2011 Elizabeth rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"Hello, my name is Mina."

Mina is a girl who has different perspectives and approaches to life. She does not fit in well at her school, and her teachers find her to be a difficulty. Her writing is never up to their standards, not only because it is not the style of writing they want, but because it addresses creativity that the school tries to suppress. In Mina's attempt to battle the school and the loss of her father, she relies on her notebook and tree to keep her grounded to reality. Now Mina...more

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May 22, 2012 Mary rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

What a lovely book! A young girl who has suffered a great loss and who doesn't fit in at school tries to find her way, and chronicles her experiences. Mina has a clear, poetic voice, strong opinions, and a rather puckish sense of humor. She is both extremely brave and extremely shy, and I can't imagine a child who wouldn't relate to some part of her experience. The quiet tale is full of starlight and stardust, birds and angels, loneliness and love. This book won't appeal to everyone, but the rig...more

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Mar 29, 2012 Lori rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: children-s

My Name is Mina is the "prequel" to Skellig, which is an absolutely amazing juvenile book. This book is equally as amazing. Written probably for readers around 9-12 years old, it tells the story of eccentric Mina, who is dealing with the loss of her father and her hatred of school and its uniformity. Told through Mina's eyes, the book is written as a journal, with Mina reflecting on the events that happened in her life, and also just her musings and wonderings (or wanderings, as she says in the...more

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Mar 28, 2013 T.E. Shepherd rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I remember discovering David Almond shortly after he first published Skellig, although think it must have been a little late to the party as I think the follow up of Kit's Wilderness was already out by them. I also remember falling in love with his writing immediately. For me, his writing and his stories represented a beauty and a deftness that I had not seen in a very long time. I also remember thinking, and being reminded of this with every new book he wrote, that his stories truly were fantas...more

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Jul 23, 2012 Elizabeth rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-reviewed

I really wanted to like this, but honestly I just didn't.

It was too precious, and too precocious, and little to nothing happened. The entire novel takes place in the mind of, or from the point of view of, the main character, who is a young girl named Mina.

Maybe I'm just getting too old to enjoy this kind of thing but it didn't seem like...much of anything. However, that having been said, it's a prequel to another novel, and it's been said that you should actually read the other novel first. Whic...more

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Feb 26, 2012 Diane rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: family-stories

Mina loves the night. She also loves thinking; reading; sitting in a tree; watching the birds, Whisper the cat, and the neighbors; and writing stories. Sometimes these activities get her in trouble. When her response to the school’s big assessment test is a little “strange”, Mina finds herself out of school. (why did Mina’s write her response to the writing prompt all in gibberish? Did William Blake do writing tasks just because he was told to?) So now she is homeschooled -- partly at the reques...more

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Sep 22, 2012 Ariel G. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Mina McKee loves the night, birds, and interesting words like archaeopteryx and nonsensical. She hates school and her former teacher, Mrs. Scullery. Ever since the fateful SATs day, Mina has been homeschooled and spends her days writing in her journal, thinking in her tree, and musing about her many past adventures and future plans. When Ernie Myers across the street dies and his house is sold, it gives Mina plenty to hope for and think about in her tree. Will interesting people move in?

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Mar 24, 2013 Nitya Jacob rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book is super cute at very well-written!!
I love Mina's personality and how she looked at things like and adult, but at the same time more like a child. I found myself relating to Mina in a lot of ways. Like: she could be a little odd- but what little girl isn't? And I felt really bad about the way people treat her. No fair on little Mina who seems weird and first, but is very kind and spontaneous at heart. Friendly and unique. I especially loved the etraordinary activities in the book- and...more

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Jan 12, 2012 Kaci added it · review of another edition

In this prequel to Skellig (which I highly recommend) we are introduced more in-depth to Mina. We are told little about Mina's personal life in Skellig. She plays more of the role of imaginative neighbor. In this book she shines as a girl with a lot of depth and heart. The book is written in journal format so we really get to know the inner workings of her brain. My favorite line is when Mina is on a walk with her mom. Her mom tells her a quote from a famous artist, "Drawing is like talking a li...more

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May 30, 2012 Heidi rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2012, ya, children

This prequel to Skellig is a difficult book for me to judge. Who is the intended audience? Preteens? Mina is a young girl whose father has died and after difficulties at school, is being homeschooled by her mother. She is a free spirit who has a favorite tree which she climbs to watch the world and write in her journal. She is inquisitive, a young girl who asks questions about the world which seem a bit out of place coming from someone so young. She is a dreamer, thoughtful and kind. This was a...more

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