Melvin Burgess is an English author of books for children and young adults. Burgess was born on April 26, 1954. Burgess's most notable book is Junk, which brought acclaim and notoriety as it dealt with teenagers taking heroin.
Book Review:Through his fear he recognised it; it was a siren. He had heard them on films. This was war; the German planes were coming.
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Book Review:For Shaun and Fly Pie, there`s no escape from the grim realities of their lives. Then one day everything changes when they find a baby on the Tip, a baby worth seventeen million pounds.
Book Review:Abandoned by his father to a life of poverty, Tony is angry with everyone, and desperately lonely. April Dean, the deaf girl, needs friends too. But their growing relationship arouses deep prejudices which threaten to engulf not only Tony and April but also the whole village.
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