The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane by C. M. Millen The Mad Scientists' Club as well as a new

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The Ink Garden of Brother Theophane by C. M. Millen The Mad Scientists' Club as well as a newWinner of the 2011 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award. In a monastery in the mountains of Mourne during the Middle Ages, one young monk struggled to focus on his task: copying the Bible and other scholarly books with plain brown ink made from wood bark in plain brown books in his plain brown robe at his plain brown desk. Brother Theophane was soon transferred from the scribe's room and assigned to make the ink that the brothers used. With his natural