Smack

Burgess, Melvin

Notes
327, 8 pages First published in 1996 as: Junk Summary: The love story of two runaway teenagers, Gemma and Tar, and their struggles with heroin addiction. Melvin Burgess' most ambitious and complex novel is a multi-faceted and vivid depiction of a group of young people in the grip of addiction. It is told in many different voices, from the addicts themselves to the friends watching from the outside who try to prevent tragedy. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. (Publisher)
Additional Notes
choice & consequences
growing up
Award winner
Librarian's Miscellania
Y11
Y12
Location edition Bar Code due date
Fiction Shelves First Square Fish edition A41651729
call #:BUR
ISBN:9780312608620
pub:2010
Subjects
Drug abuse - Fiction
Heroin
Adolescents - Fiction
Runaways - Fiction
Human relations - Fiction
Carnegie Medal
Guardian Children's Fiction Award England - Social conditions 20th century - Fiction