- Home schooling, Families, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Mothers and daughters
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 homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
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Contemporary, spare, intimate and contemplative.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- David Almond
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 300
- Publisher
- Delacorte Books for Young Readers, Yearling Book, Birdson
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780375989650
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