Loving April (Out Of Print)

Author: Melvin Burgess

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ISBN : 9780140369830
Publisher : pengui
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Weight (g) : 0.152
Publication date : 26 September 1996
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Melvin Burgess
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Dewey classification : 823.914
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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 the whole village.

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Melvin Burgess's previous novel "Junk" won the Carnegie Medal and the "Guardian" Children's Fiction Award.

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Melvin Burgess is regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children's literature. In 1997 his controversial bestseller Junk won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. It was also shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year. Four of his novels have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal: The Cry of the Wolf, And Angel for May, The Baby and the Fly Pie and The Ghost Behind the Wall. Melvin lives in Manchester with his two children.

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