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Smack
Contributor(s): Burgess, Melvin (Author), Tedder, Jessica (Editor)

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ISBN: 0312608624     ISBN-13: 9780312608620
Publisher: Square Fish
OUR PRICE: $14.69  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: June 2010
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse
- Young Adult Fiction | Social Themes - Homelessness & Poverty
Dewey: FIC
Age Level: 14-18
Grade Level: 9-13
Lexile Measure: 690(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" L (0.70 lbs) 352 pages
Features: Glossary, Ikids, Price on Product
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 28489
Reading Level: 4.6   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 13.0
 
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Publisher Description:

I can give it up any time I want . . .

Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space. This time it was Lily and Rob and Gemma spending all that time to make me feel one of them, but it was the drug too. All that crap--about Gemma leaving me, about Mum and Dad, about leaving home. All that negative stuff. All the pain . . .
It just floated away from me, I just floated away from it . . . up and away . . .
I leaned back and I looked at the book and I looked at them and Gemma smiled at me, a big soft smile, and her eyes were like marbles.
Better? she said.

Smack is the winner of the 1996 Carnegie Medal in Literature.


Contributor Bio(s): Burgess, Melvin: -

Melvin Burgess is the author of many novels for young adult and middle-grade readers. Among them are Nicholas Dane, Doing It (a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age), The Ghost Behind the Wall (Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year) and Smack (winner of Britain's Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for Fiction, as well as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults). In 2001, he wrote the novelization of the film, Billy Elliot. Mr. Burgess lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, in England.


 
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