"Gritty and realistic, this novel touches and challenges, and certainly can't be put down."

Books for Keeps

"Totally gripping and charged with intense emotion."

Mail on Sunday

'We're the rubbish kids, losers and orphans. Everyday we go out on to the Tip to sort rubbish for Mother Shelly.' For Sham, Fly Pie and his sister Jane, this is the grim reality of their lives. Then one day everything changes when they find a baby on the Tip - a baby worth seventeen million pounds . . . This discovery takes them into a savage, lonely city and so begins an endless fight for survival.
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'We're the rubbish kids, losers and orphans. Everyday we go out on to the Tip to sort rubbish for Mother Shelly.'For Sham, Fly Pie and his sister Jane, this is the grim reality of their lives. Then one day everything changes when they find a baby on the Tip - a baby worth seventeen million pounds . . .
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A new edition of this Melvin Burgess classic.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781849394550
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Vendor
Andersen Press Ltd
Vekt
212 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
00, J, 02
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Melvin Burgess was born in London and brought up in Surrey and Sussex. He has had a variety of jobs before becoming a full-time writer. Before his first novel, he had short stories published and a play broadcast on Radio 4. He is now regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children's literature.