My Name Is Mina is a powerful and thoughtful book which really got me thinking. As Mina fills her journal with her stories, thoughts, poems and feelings, you get a trip into her magical world.
Mina describes the blank pages in her journal as an empty sky, with the words as birds flying across it. I think the book is like a sky filled with lots of colourful, exotic birds flying thought it, because it is so unique and imaginative. Every page left me wanting to read on, the entire book had me spellbound from start to finish. I think that what makes this book so good is because Mina uses words so creatively to tell us about her interesting life. She tells us about loss, love and life, and by the end of the book I had learnt a different way of looking at the world. Mina is a girl who has had some patches of darkness in her life, but she always finds a light and hope.
This story is written so well – it is funny, inspiring, sad, happy and made me feel so many different emotions throughout. By the end of the book I didn't want to say goodbye to Mina.
Chiara Wilkinson is 13 and one of the winners of the Guardian Young Critics' Prize 2011.
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