Melvin Burgess
1) Smack
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After running away from their troubled homes, two English teenagers move in with a group of squatters in the port city of Bristol and try to find ways to support their growing addiction to heroin.
2) Kite
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Although the landowner for whom his father works as a gamekeeper hates all birds of prey, Taylor and his friend raise an endangered red kite in secret.
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Twelve-year-old David sneaks through the ventilation shafts in his London apartment building pulling pranks on his neighbors, which awakens the ghost of a boy with a grudge against the lonely, senile old man who lives upstairs.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7
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Formats
Description
Stolen From Home and sold into a harsh life as a sled dog in northern Canada, Buck must quickly learn to survive. He soon takes his place as leader of the hardworking team, and his strength and courage become legendary among men. But the call of the wild is strong, awakening primal feelings of a life among wolves...
One of the greatest of all wildlife stories, The Call of the Wild will enthrall today's readers as it has since its first publication...
5) Billy Elliot
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Eleven-year-old miner's son Billy Elliot is on his way to boxing lessons when he stumbles upon a ballet class. Billy secretly joins the class, knowing that his blue-collar family would never understand.
6) Bloodtide
Author
Pub. Date
2007, c1999
Description
Two ruthless gangs of warlords fight over the bombed-out remains of the city of London, until a truce is suggested by the patriarch of the Volson clan, who offers his fourteen-year-old daughter's hand to his blood rival.
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