Melvin Burgess
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When his single mother dies of a heroin overdose, fourteen-year-old Nick is sent into England's institutional care system, where he endures harsh punishment, sexual abuse, and witnesses horrors on a daily basis before emerging, emotionally scarred but still alive. Loosely based on "Oliver Twist."
2) The hit
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
There is a new drug on the mean streets of Manchester which promises the most intense week of your life, and then you are dead--and after he watches a pop star die on stage, Adam thinks that his own life is so miserable that he might just as well try it.
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