My Name Is Mina Av David Almond

<p><i>There's an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. It's been there for an age. I keep on saying that I'll write a journal. So I'll start right here, right now. I open the book and write the very first words:</i> My name is Mina and I love the night. <i>Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line?<br><br></i>And so Mina writes and writes in her notebook, and here is her journal, Mina's life in Mina's own words: her stories and dreams, experiences and thoughts, her scribblings and nonsense, poems and songs. Her vivid account of her vivid life.<br><br>In this stunning book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig.<br><br>Shortlisted for the 2012 Carnegie Medal.</p>