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 Doing it by Burgess, Melvin |
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Brief Description 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? |
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Prizes Won By This Title (See the awards link at the top of the page for other prize winners) Winner of LA Times Book Awards: Young Adult Fiction 2005. |
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Author Profile Melvin Burgess is regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children's literature. He was brought up in Sussex and Berkshire. Melvin started writing in his twenties and wrote on and off for fifteen years before having his first book, The Cry of the Wolf, published in 1990. In 1997 his controversial bestseller Junk won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal. It was also shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year. Four of his novels have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal: The Cry of the Wolf, An Angel for May, The Baby and Fly Pie and The Ghost Behind the Wall. Melvin now writes full time and lives in Manchester with his wife and their two children. |
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