Melvin Burgess

The Carnegie Medal and Guardian Fiction Prize winning classic YA novel reissued for a new generation With an introduction by Malorie Blackman and all new material exploring the book s controversial history It was a love story Me Gemma and junk I thought it was going to last forever Tar loves Gemma but Gemma doesn t want to be tied down She wants to fly But no one can fly forever One day finally you have to come down Melvin Burgess most ambitious and complex novel is a vivid depiction of a group of teenagers in the grip of addiction Told from multiple viewpoints Junk is a powerful unflinching novel about the effects of drug abuse on teenagers Once you take a hit you will never be the same again Everyone should read Junk The Times

"Sandra tiene 17 años y muchos problemas. Un día decide rebelarse: abandona la escuela, se pelea con su familia y amigos, deja el novio por ser ""demasiado fiel"" y consigue un nuevo grupo de ""amigos"", con los que probará drogas y una vida sexual sin recatos. Un día Sandra choca sin querer contra un vagabundo alcohólico, al que le tira una cerveza. Éste, enfurecido, la acorrala en un callejón. Ahí sucede algo increíble: la convierte en una perra … Esta obra sobre las presiones y elecciones que enfrentan los adolescentes en el mundo moderno, ha causado polémica y revuelo. Pero también ha sacudido a decenas de miles de jóvenes. "

Contemporary / British English (Available March 2008) Eleven-year old Billy Elliot is different from other boys. He is not very clever or good at sport. Then, one day, he discovers ballet dancing. Finally he has found something that he can do well. But everybody knows that ballet is for girls, not boys! Will Billy continue to dance? Or have his father and brother got other plans for him?

A re-telling of the animated Disney film "Treasure Planet", this book follows Jim Hawkins, a rebellious solar-surfing teenager, on an adventure beyond his wildest dreams. In search of treasure, Jim finds himself involved in battles and betrayal.

Billy Elliot vit dans une ville miniere d''Angleterre. Dans la famille Elliot, on est mineur de pere en fils, et depuis de longues semaines, on se bat pour que le gouvernement ne ferme pas les mines. Dans la famille Elliot, on fait de la boxe de pere en fils mais, sur le ring, Billy esquive les coups, fait des pirouettes. On dirait qu''il danse. Et c''est ce qu''il aime Billy, danser. Et il est doue. Si doue qu''il pourrait un jour devenir danseur etoile. Mais pour ça, il va devoir se battre. Pour la famille Elliot commence alors un nouveau combat, un combat plein d''espoir...

From acclaimed and controversial author, Melvin Burgess, a terrifying new Hammer Horror novella about a teenager and her relationship with a ghoul. When Beth wakes up one morning covered in dirt, she puts it down to an extreme case of sleep-walking. But when reports of a desecrated grave start to circulate, her night-time wanderings take on a sinister air. Soon the city is being plagued by strange sightings and sudden disappearances. Beth knows that something is changing within her. Something that's filling her with an urgent, desperate hunger that demands to be satisfied - at any cost...

A en Billy, fill d''un miner del nord d''Anglaterra, li agrada la dansa i haurà de vèncer molts prejudicis per poder arribar a ser un gran ballarí.A en Billy, el fill d''un miner del nord d''Anglater

Brandon is a boaster he says he is brilliant at lots of things. Then he is challenged to count up to ten million. So Brandon starts: one, two, three . . . and before long he is up to one thousand. Everyone around him is bewildered and annoyed: his friend Waris, his teachers and Miss Hexx, the head. But Brandon cant stop counting. And the higher he counts, the more everyone takes an interest, when Brandon reaches 30,000 he goes viral, by the time he gets to one million, he has a manager and a stadium full of fans counting with him. And then strange, impossible things start happening. The numbers are taking over everything . . .A fun and contemporary story about rise and fall of celebrity, and ultimately staying true to yourself.

Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down - not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly for ever. One day, somehow, finally, you have to come down.

'The ghost was rushing forwards towards David. As he came he grew bigger and bigger and bigger, until he was like a lorry charging through the pipes. David screamed and the ghostly boy opened his mouth and screamed back. But his scream wasn't the scream of a child. It was the scream of an old, old man. "Come back, come back," screamed the ghost in his cracked old voice. "Don't leave me. Don't go!"'

Dino really fancies fit, sexy Jackie, but she just won't give him what he wants ... Jonathan likes Deborah, but she's a bit fat - what will his mates say? Ben's been secretly shagging his teacher for ages. He used to love it, but what if he wants to stop? Three lads discovering sex for the first time. But do any of them really know what they're doing?

For Sham, Fly Pie and his sister Jane, this is the grim reality of their lives. Then one day everything changes when they find a baby on the Tip - a baby worth seventeen million pounds. . . The events that follow take them into a savage, lonely city and so begins an endless fight for survival. An intense and thrilling read.

Set in the not-so-distant future two rival gangs the Volsons and the Connors struggle for control of London which is now surounded by the halfman lands - a desolate place populated by creatures halfmen who were the result of genetic experiments to create living killing machines.

Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly for ever. One day, somehow, finally, you have to come down. Winner of the Guardian Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal

A en Billy, el fill d''un miner del nord d''Anglaterra, la vida se li capgira un dia que, accidentalment, es fixa en unes nenes que fan ballet al mateix gimnas on ell va de mala gana a fer boxa, per seguir la tradicio familiar. Queda fascinat per la magia de la dansa i decideix provar-ho. I mentre ell es debat en secret entre la boxa i el ballet, el seu pare i el seu germa es juguen la vida en una vaga que te paralitzada mitja ciutat.