New Releases by Melvin Burgess

Gemma en Teer (beiden 14) lopen in de jaren tachtig van huis weg en raken in Bristol verslaafd aan de heroïne. Het kost hen waanzinnig veel moeite om af te kicken. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.

On a beau ne penser qu''à ça, avoir déjà tout vécu en imagination, fanfaronner avec les autres garçons... les choses se compliquent quand il s''agit de passer à l''acte. Entre celle qui ne veut pas, celle qui en veut trop, et celle qui s''accroche, Dino, Ben et Jon ont trois problèmes très différents. Mais tous vont faire la découverte du sexe.

If you gotta be a dog, be a bitch. "My tail was going bananas as I rounded the corner and headed into Platt Fields park. The pavement was alive; my nose was an eye that sees into the past. I speeded up. Oh, I was in love with Terry, but to run and sniff and feel my ears catching sounds out of the air! But what do you know? Only a dog could understand what I mean." Sandra Francy is seventeen and having way too much fun. Everyone wants to stop her but the problem is, she likes it. When she accidentally gets turned into a dog she''s horrified at first, but soon she starts to wonder if being human is worth the effort. Her attempts to hang on to her humanity are bizarre and often hilarious-but her life as a dog leads her to pleasures she hardly knew existed. Award-winning author Melvin Burgess brilliantly captures the realities of teenage life and hormone imbalance.

Tells, in the voices of many individuals, of two fourteen-year-old runaways in Bristol, England, who find a home with anarchists and get involved in vandalism, shoplifting, and prostitution to support their growing addiction to heroin.

Tells, in the voices of many individuals, of two fourteen-year-old runaways in Bristol, England, who find a home with anarchists and get involved in vandalism, shoplifting, and prostitution to support their growing addiction to heroin.

David a douze ans. Il vit seul avec un père qui ne le comprend pas. Et le soir, quand il rentre de l''école, il s''ennuie. Un jour, il décide de se faufiler de l''autre côté du mur, dans les conduits d''aération. Il va y faire la plus étrange des rencontres. La plus dangereuse aussi... Une rencontre qui va bouleverser sa vie à tout jamais.

When Jarvis buys a robin from the mysterious Birdman with plans to free it, he finds it harder to let the lovely bird go then he thought.

Au coin de la rue, un homme à l''air étrange vend des oiseaux en cage. Ivan est si triste de voir ces oiseaux enfermés, qu''il en achète un pour le libérer. Mais l''enfant tiendra-t-il sa promesse ? Plein d''une force quasi magique, ce conte met à la portée de tous, même des plus petits, les thèmes puissants et universels de la tentation, de la conscience, de la liberté. Melvin Burgess est l''auteur mondialement célèbre de Junk. Illustratrice renommée, Ruth Brown a su rendre à merveille l''atmosphère envoûtante de ce conte.

When Peter and his sister discover a giant extraterrestrial hidden beneath the earth, they become friends and conspirators despite the tremendous risks involved.

After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin.

Someone mad was screaming at them from the upstairs window of a house next to the station. It was a girl. ''Oh, that''s April. Don''t mind her...Deaf and dumb, see.''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 also the whole village. This moving and powerful love story is about two very different people, worlds apart.

A hunter determined to wipe out every wolf in England almost succeeds, but then finds himself the prey.

Captures the immense power that the image of the witch wielded over early 17th century English minds. 10 yrs+.