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My Name is Mina
My Name Is Mina (Skellig)
My Name is Mina
David Almond
Award-winning author David Almond reintroduces readers to the perceptive, sensitive Mina before the events of Skellig in this lyrical and fantastical work. My Name is Mina is not only a pleasure to read, it is an intimate and enlightening look at a character whose open mind and heart have much to teach us about life, love, and the mysteries that surround us.Mina loves the night. While everyone else is in a deep slumber, she gazes out the window, witness to the moon's silvery light. 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 journal, and one night, at last, she begins to do just that. As she writes, Mina makes discoveries both trivial and profound about herself and her world, her thoughts and her dreams.
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Genre: 

  • Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
My Name is Mina review by BLem_RPEMS
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BLem_RPEMS
There has been a blank notebook sitting on a table in Mina McKee's house that Mina has said she will use as a journal. Now she has decided to actually do just that. Mina has always been strange; she has always been the outsider. Mina has no friends, no dad, but a loving mom who is willing to homeschool Mina, and a abundant imagination that can take her anywhere. 'School is a cage' is her thoughts. A cage that doesn't allow imagination! Her used to be teacher was always mad at her for being imaginative and that finally led to being taken out of school.
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