Burgess, Melvin.

Junk / by Melvin Burgess. - London : Penguin books, 1997. - 278 p. ; 21 cm.

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.

Carnegie Medal, 1996. Guardian Award for Children's Fiction, 1997.

0140380191


Runaways--Fiction
Heroin--Fiction
Drug abuse--Fiction
Prostitution--Fiction
Anarchists--Fiction


England

PZ7.B9166