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Old Bag by Melvin Burgess
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Most Wanted for 18+ Years Ser.
In gangland, you play by the rules if you know what's good for you. And Mikey knows all the rules: Don't talk to the filth. Don't fall in love with the wrong girl, or the girl from the wrong family. And don't ever cross Mrs Crabs. Mikey knows the rules, all right. It's just a pity he's too stupid to sti ...Show more
Pearson Readers Level 3: Billy Elliot by Melvin Burgess
Category: EDUCATIONAL | Series: Pearson English Graded Readers Ser.
Contemporary / British English (Available February 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 bo ...Show more
Persist by Melvin Burgess
Category: Children's
A haunting, powerful drama from Carnegie Medalist Melvin Burgess. A girl in a coma. A desperate mother. Marianne has been absent from her own life for so long that even her mother's unwavering faith is starting to tremble. But Marianne, floating in her own world, is starting to remember who she is - and ...Show more
Robbers on the Road - Tudor Flashbacks by Melvin Burgess
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Tudor Flashbacks
An exciting tale, narrated from two very different perspectives, about two boys' efforts to become highwaymen to fool their school teacher. Further danger lies in store when they realize that they've strayed on to another robber's patch...By turns funny and thrilling - with an brilliant twist in the tal ...Show more
Sara's Face by Melvin Burgess
Category: Children's
Sara Carter wants to be famous. Fame is her obsession. So when legendary rock star Jonathon Heat offers her star training and the cosmetic surgery she thinks she wants, Sara can't believe her dream will come true. But Jonathon Heat doesn't want Sara's talent. Jonathon Heat wants Sara's face. Melvin Burg ...Show more
The Baby and Fly Pie by Melvin Burgess
Category: Junior Fiction
'We're the rubbish kids, losers and orphans. Every day we go out on to the Tip to sort rubbish for Mother Shelly'. 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...Th ...Show more
The Ghost Behind the Wall by Melvin Burgess
Category: Fiction
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. ...Show more
The Hit by Melvin Burgess
Category: Young Adult Fiction
A new drug is out. Everyone is talking about it. Death. Take it, and you have one amazing week to live. It's the ultimate high. At the ultimate price Adam is tempted. Life is rubbish; his girlfriend's over him, his brother's gone. So what's he got to lose? Everything as it turns out. It's up to his girl ...Show more
The Lost Witch by Melvin Burgess
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Bea has started to hear and see things that no one else can - creatures, voices, visions. Then strangers visit Bea and tell her she is different: she has the rare powers of a witch. They warn her she is being hunted. Her parents think she is hallucinating and needs help. All Bea wants to do is get on wi ...Show more
The Lost Witch by Melvin Burgess
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Bea has started to hear and see things that no one else can - creatures, voices, visions. Then strangers visit Bea and tell her she is different: she has the rare powers of a witch. They warn her she is being hunted. Her parents think she is hallucinating and needs help. All Bea wants to do is get on wi ...Show more