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300 p Summary: Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins home schooling under the direction of her widowed mother. David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig, in a prequel to his debut novel, Skellig
Hans Christian Andersen Award
Whitbread Award
Carnegie Medal