New Releases by MELVIN BURGESS

The new hope of the Volson clan, Sigurd, battles a highly advanced, gold-hoarding dragon, resulting in his fall into the underworld. But hope remains as Sigurd encounters his true love, Bryony, and accepts his destiny to reunite England.

issy doesn''t know where she came from or who she is. Night after night, she has the same nightmare: she burns in a fire and at the heart of the flames is a face she dare not look at. Fear and superstition are everywhere and these are dangerous times for issy. She must run - from the Witch-finder, from the evil hag who wants her, from those she loves and maybe even from her own true nature . . .

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.

Tam, dont les parents sont séparés, se réfugie souvent dans une ferme en ruines, à l''écart de la ville. Il y rencontre une vieille mendiante et son chien. Ensemble, ils vont effectuer un étonnant voyage dans le temps et se trouver plongés en pleine Seconde Guerre mondiale. May, une étrange petite fille, devient alors son amie... Melvin Burgess signe là un roman très émouvant, où l''on glisse imperceptiblement, en compagnie de personnages forts et attachants, de la réalité au rêve.

Billy Elliot vit dans une ville minière d''Angleterre. Dans la famille Elliot, on est mineur de père 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 père en fils mais, sur le ring, Billy esquive les coups, fait des pirouettes. On dirait qu''il est danse. Et c''est ce qu''il aime Billy, danser. Et il est doué. Si doué qu''il pourrait un jour devenir danseur étoile. Mais pour ça, il va devoir se battre. Pour la famille Elliot commence alors un nouveau combat, un combat plein d''espoir...

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 old man who lives upstairs. Suggested level: intermediate.

Au coin de la rue, un homme à l''air étrange vend des oiseaux en cage. Ivan est si triste de voir ces oiseaux enfermés, qu''il en achète un pour le libérer. Mais l''enfant tiendra-t-il sa promesse ? Plein d''une force quasi magique, ce conte met à la portée de tous, même des plus petits, les thèmes puissants et universels de la tentation, de la conscience, de la liberté. Melvin Burgess est l''auteur mondialement célèbre de Junk. Illustratrice renommée, Ruth Brown a su rendre à merveille l''atmosphère envoûtante de ce conte.

Someone mad was screaming at them from the upstairs window of a house next to the station. It was a girl. ''Oh, that''s April. Don''t mind her...Deaf and dumb, see.''Abandoned by his father to a life of poverty, Tony is angry with everyone, and desperately lonely. April Dean, the deaf girl, needs friends too. But their growing relationship arouses deep prejudices which threaten to engulf not only Tony and April but also the whole village. This moving and powerful love story is about two very different people, worlds apart.

A hunter determined to wipe out every wolf in England almost succeeds, but then finds himself the prey.

This series of contemporary writing meets the requirements of the revised National Curriculum. This book tells the story of Tam, who finds himself caught in a time-warp which sends him back to World War II. There he meets the lonely May, whom he must help.

Billy''s mother is dead, and his father and brother are fiercely involved in the bitter miners'' strike. Billy''s father wants his son to learn to box, but Billy becomes fascinated by the grace and magic of ballet.