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Authors: Melvin Burgess
ISBN-13: 9780380732234, ISBN-10: 0380732238
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: May 1999
Edition: REPRINT

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Author Biography: Melvin Burgess

Melvin Burgess is the author of many novels for young–adult and middle–grade readers. Among them are The Baby and Fly Pie, The Earth Giant, and Smack, winner of Britain’s Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for Fiction, as well as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Mr. Burgess lives in Lancashire, England.

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Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for fiction, two of England's most prestigious awards, Smack tells a penetrating story about heroin use. Insightful, haunting, and real, this novel is the Go Ask Alice of the '90s.

Publishers Weekly

In a starred review of this "searing" account of teens who become addicted to heroin, PW wrote that the "unflinching depiction of the seductive pleasures as well as the insidious horrors of heroin will leave an indelible impression on all who read it." Ages 12-up. (May) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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