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An Angel for May by Melvin Burgess
Category: Children's
Tam is unhappy at home and often takes refuge in the ruins of Thowt It Farm. But then one day he is transported back to the Second World War. Alone and afraid, he makes friends with May, who has been rescued from a bombed-out house. She tries to persuade him to stay at the farm, but Tam is afraid of bei ...Show more
Billy Elliot by Melvin Burgess
Category: Fiction
Set in northern England during the 1984 miner's strike, Billy Elliot tells the story of a young working class boy who chooses not to follow his widowed father's instructions to train to be a boxer. Instead, fascinated by the ballet class sharing the same building as his gym, Billy hangs up his gloves to ...Show more
Billy Elliot (2020 Reissue) by Melvin Burgess
Category: Young Adult
Based on the screenplay of the renowned film and musical! Billy Elliot is growing up in a struggling coal-mining town in Yorkshire. His father wants him to learn to box, like he did, but Billy has other ideas. Encouraged in secret by a local teacher, he's determined to dance his way to a different futu ...Show more
Billy Elliot - Heinemann New Windmill by Melvin Burgess
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: New Windmills S.
Billy Elliot's not like his Dad. He doesn't want to learn boxing. He's not cut out to be a miner. But when he stumbles across a ballet class and discovers he's a natural, he realises what he does want to do. This is Billy's gritty and determined struggle, at first in secret, but then with the wholeheart ...Show more
Bloodsong (#2) by Melvin Burgess
Category: Children's | Series: Bloodtide
'Love. Hate. So what? It's family. It's business.' Fifteen-year-old Sigurd, son of King Sigmund, is the last surviving member of the Volson clan. His father's kingdom - the former city of London - is gone. And his father's knife, a gift from the gods, has been shattered to dust. Armed with a powerful sw ...Show more
Bloodtide (#1) by Melvin Burgess
Category: Children's | Series: Bloodtide
'Love. Hate. So what? This is family. This is business.' London is in ruins. The once-glorious city is now a gated wasteland cut off from the rest of the country and in the hands of two warring families - the Volsons and the Connors. Val Volson offers the hand of his young daughter, Signy, to Connor as ...Show more
Burning Issy by Melvin Burgess
Category: Young Adult Fiction
'Are you frightened of dying, Issy'? Issy doesn't know where she came from or who she is. Night after night, she has the same nightmare: she burns in a fire and at the heart of the flames is a face she dare not look at. Fear and superstition are everywhere. She must run - from the Witch-finder, from the ...Show more
Burning Issy by Melvin Burgess
Category: Fiction
Issy doesn't know where she came from or who she is. Night after night, she has the same nightmare: she burns in a fire and at the heart of the flames is a face she dare not look at. Fear and superstition are everywhere and these are dangerous times for Issy. She must run - from the Witch-finder, from t ...Show more
Count by Melvin Burgess
Category: Audio
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. Bu ...Show more
Count by Melvin Burgess
Category: Middle Readers
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 B ...Show more
Doing It by Melvin Burgess
Category: Children's
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 it to stop? Three lads discovering sex for the first ti ...Show more