Junk
By: by Melvin Burgess.
Publisher: Andersen Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Runaways -- Fiction.; Heroin -- Fiction.; Drug abuse -- Fiction.; Prostitution -- Fiction.; Anarchists -- Fiction.; England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.
Notes: Carnegie Medal, 1996.
Guardian Award for Children's Fiction, 1997.