New Releases by Melvin Burgess

If you gotta be a dog, be a bitch. "My tail was going bananas as I rounded the corner and headed into Platt Fields park. The pavement was alive; my nose was an eye that sees into the past. I speeded up. Oh, I was in love with Terry, but to run and sniff and feel my ears catching sounds out of the air! But what do you know? Only a dog could understand what I mean." Sandra Francy is seventeen and having way too much fun. Everyone wants to stop her but the problem is, she likes it. When she accidentally gets turned into a dog she''s horrified at first, but soon she starts to wonder if being human is worth the effort. Her attempts to hang on to her humanity are bizarre and often hilarious-but her life as a dog leads her to pleasures she hardly knew existed. Award-winning author Melvin Burgess brilliantly captures the realities of teenage life and hormone imbalance.

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.

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...

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.

David a douze ans. Il vit seul avec un père qui ne le comprend pas. Et le soir, quand il rentre de l''école, il s''ennuie. Un jour, il décide de se faufiler de l''autre côté du mur, dans les conduits d''aération. Il va y faire la plus étrange des rencontres. La plus dangereuse aussi... Une rencontre qui va bouleverser sa vie à tout jamais.

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.