My Name Is Mina is a 2010 children's novel by David Almond. It is a prequel to Skellig and is about Mina, a homeschooled girl who lives across the road from the house that Michael's family moves into at the beginning of Skellig. The novel takes the form of a stream of consciousness journal. It is written in a way that shows us Mina's opinions.
First edition
David Almond is a British author who has written many novels for children and young adults from 1998, each one receiving critical acclaim.
Almond in 2008
David Almond at the meeting with readers at the Russian State Children's Library in Moscow