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>