Melvin Burgess
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British author of children's fiction.
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Melvin Burgess
When Gemma, a rebellious 14-year-old bored with life in her small seaside town, decides to run away to join her boyfriend Tar in London, the pair are offered shelter in a squat. They meet two heroin addicts and are themselves soon hooked, while Gemma is forced into prostitution to pay for the drug.
Melvin Burgess
I mean-I like girls. I get on well with them. And I like sex. Not that I’ve had all that much experience of it—not with another person being in the room at the same time, anyway. I just can’t somehow put the two together. I can be getting on really well with a girl but as soon as I get an inkling that there might be a chance of anything happening, I just freeze up. It’s scary.
Dino, Jonathan, and Ben have got some problems, mostly with Jackie, Deborah, and Alison.
Dino’s girlfriend Jackie, the most beautiful girl in school, drives…
Melvin Burgess
Twelve-year-old David sneaks through the ventilation shafts in his London apartment building pulling pranks on his neighbors, which awakens the ghost of a boy with a grudge against the lonely, senile old man who lives upstairs.
Melvin Burgess
A group of street children, who survive on sorting through the rubbish on a tip for Mother Shelly, get involved in a baby kidnap. If they can return the baby and claim the reward they will be able to start a new life. But this story of dreams ends in disaster.
