Melvin Burgess

"Sandra tiene 17 años y muchos problemas. Un día decide rebelarse: abandona la escuela, se pelea con su familia y amigos, deja el novio por ser ""demasiado fiel"" y consigue un nuevo grupo de ""amigos"", con los que probará drogas y una vida sexual sin recatos. Un día Sandra choca sin querer contra un vagabundo alcohólico, al que le tira una cerveza. Éste, enfurecido, la acorrala en un callejón. Ahí sucede algo increíble: la convierte en una perra … Esta obra sobre las presiones y elecciones que enfrentan los adolescentes en el mundo moderno, ha causado polémica y revuelo. Pero también ha sacudido a decenas de miles de jóvenes. "

Contemporary / British English (Available March 2008) Eleven-year old Billy Elliot is different from other boys. He is not very clever or good at sport. Then, one day, he discovers ballet dancing. Finally he has found something that he can do well. But everybody knows that ballet is for girls, not boys! Will Billy continue to dance? Or have his father and brother got other plans for him?

A re-telling of the animated Disney film "Treasure Planet", this book follows Jim Hawkins, a rebellious solar-surfing teenager, on an adventure beyond his wildest dreams. In search of treasure, Jim finds himself involved in battles and betrayal.

Billy Elliot vit dans une ville miniere d''Angleterre. Dans la famille Elliot, on est mineur de pere en fils, et depuis de longues semaines, on se bat pour que le gouvernement ne ferme pas les mines. Dans la famille Elliot, on fait de la boxe de pere en fils mais, sur le ring, Billy esquive les coups, fait des pirouettes. On dirait qu''il danse. Et c''est ce qu''il aime Billy, danser. Et il est doue. Si doue qu''il pourrait un jour devenir danseur etoile. Mais pour ça, il va devoir se battre. Pour la famille Elliot commence alors un nouveau combat, un combat plein d''espoir...

From acclaimed and controversial author, Melvin Burgess, a terrifying new Hammer Horror novella about a teenager and her relationship with a ghoul. When Beth wakes up one morning covered in dirt, she puts it down to an extreme case of sleep-walking. But when reports of a desecrated grave start to circulate, her night-time wanderings take on a sinister air. Soon the city is being plagued by strange sightings and sudden disappearances. Beth knows that something is changing within her. Something that's filling her with an urgent, desperate hunger that demands to be satisfied - at any cost...

The Carnegie Medal and Guardian Fiction Prize winning classic YA novel reissued for a new generation With an introduction by Malorie Blackman and all new material exploring the book s controversial history It was a love story Me Gemma and junk I thought it was going to last forever Tar loves Gemma but Gemma doesn t want to be tied down She wants to fly But no one can fly forever One day finally you have to come down Melvin Burgess most ambitious and complex novel is a vivid depiction of a group of teenagers in the grip of addiction Told from multiple viewpoints Junk is a powerful unflinching novel about the effects of drug abuse on teenagers Once you take a hit you will never be the same again Everyone should read Junk The Times

Melvin Burgess dark fantasy epics inspired by Norse mythology now available as one sensational duology for a new generation of fans London is in ruins The once glorious city is now a gated wasteland cut off from the rest of the country and in the hands of two warring families the Volsons and the Conors In Bloodtide Val Volson offers the hand of his young daughter Signy to Conor as a truce At first the marriage seems to have been blessed by the gods but betrayal and deceit are never far away in this violent world and the lives of both families are soon to be changed for ever A generation later in Bloodsong fifteen year old Sigurd son of King Sigmund is the last surviving member of the Volson clan His father s kingdom the former city of London is gone Armed with a legendary weapon Sigurd faces death fire and torment as he travels through Hel and back to unite his country once again

A en Billy, el fill d''un miner del nord d''Anglaterra, la vida se li capgira un dia que, accidentalment, es fixa en unes nenes que fan ballet al mateix gimnas on ell va de mala gana a fer boxa, per seguir la tradicio familiar. Queda fascinat per la magia de la dansa i decideix provar-ho. I mentre ell es debat en secret entre la boxa i el ballet, el seu pare i el seu germa es juguen la vida en una vaga que te paralitzada mitja ciutat.

Sandra Francy is seventeen and under pressure - pressure to be good and work hard at school. But she's fed up with all that. Sandra's been having fun, running wild - some say too wild. Then she gets turned into a dog. She's frightened at first, but she quickly finds pleasures she hardly knew existed. Sandra starts to wonder, is being human worth all the effort?

La madre de Billy ha muerto, y tanto su padre como su hermano mayor están inmersos en una de las huelgas de mineros más importantes de todos los tiempos. El padre de Billy lleva a su hijo al gimnasio para que aprenda boxeo, igual que hizo el de pequeño. Pero el chico se siente fascinado por la magia de la danza y prefiere observar a las niñas que estudian ballet.

Tar ama a Gemma. Pero Gemma non quere atarse a nada nin a ninguén. Están fartos das súas familias. O pai de Tar, alcólico, malla na súa muller e Gemma sente que a vida na súa casa está chea de prohibicions. Queren voar: foxen a Bristol na procura de okupas. Ali compartiran toda a sua vida, incluindo a sua adiccion pola heroina, con Rob e Lily. Inician asi un camiño de destruccion e desesperacion. Tar comenta: se non importa non chegar os vinte anos, non hai ningun argumento contra a heroina.Con Ionqui, novela gañadora do Carnegie Medal e do The Guardian Prize for fiction, Melvin Burgess debuxa con brillantez o descenso gradual na adiccion as drogas. Non hai aqui sermons moralizantes, so a enxeñosa revelacion de feitos frios e duros. En palabras do propio autor O libro non e real; nin sequera e unha ficcionalizacion da realidade. Mais todo el e certo, cada palabra. Melvin Burgess utiliza a primeira persoa en cada un dos trinta e dous capitulos da obra, dez voces diferentes que amosan unha vision, moitas veces terrible, das motivacions e dos cambios de cada un dos protagonistas. Asi a personalidade de Tar muda dramaticamente no curso do libro, dende ser un rapaz solitario e agradable a ser un adicto cos nervios a flor de pel que busca pelexa. Traducida, en a penas dous anos, a vintecinco linguas, Ionqui e unha novela que persiste na memoria dos seus lectores e lectoras moito tempo despois de acadar o seu final.

Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down - not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly for ever. One day, somehow, finally, you have to come down.

'The ghost was rushing forwards towards David. As he came he grew bigger and bigger and bigger, until he was like a lorry charging through the pipes. David screamed and the ghostly boy opened his mouth and screamed back. But his scream wasn't the scream of a child. It was the scream of an old, old man. "Come back, come back," screamed the ghost in his cracked old voice. "Don't leave me. Don't go!"'

Dino really fancies fit, sexy Jackie, but she just won't give him what he wants ... Jonathan likes Deborah, but she's a bit fat - what will his mates say? Ben's been secretly shagging his teacher for ages. He used to love it, but what if he wants to stop? Three lads discovering sex for the first time. But do any of them really know what they're doing?