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Melvin Burgess

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It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar


— Melvin Burgess


#love

Love is a secret society, a community for two.


— Melvin Burgess


#secret-society #love

And then I noticed the dandelions.


— Melvin Burgess


#inspirational

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.


— Melvin Burgess


#being #being a teenager #difficult #hard #living

I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat.


— Melvin Burgess


#between #bit #coffee #cup #cut

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.


— Melvin Burgess


#because #child #could #difficult #favourites






About Melvin Burgess






Did you know about Melvin Burgess?

For the 10th anniversary in 2007 it was named one of the top ten Medal-winning works selected by a panel to compose the ballot for a public election of the all-time favourite. Melvin Burgess (born 25 April 1954 in Brighton Sussex South England) is a British author of children's fiction. In the U.

Burgess again courted predictable controversy in 2003 with the publication of Doing It which dealt with underage sex. At least in Britain Junk became one of the best-known young adult books of the decade. It was highly commended by the librarians for the Carnegie Medal which Gillian Cross won for Wolf.

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