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Junk: Adapted for the Stage

AUTHOR Burgess, Melvin
PUBLISHER Methuen Drama (10/01/2008)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down - not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehow, finally you have to come down. Commissioned and produced by Oxford Stage Company, Junk premiered at The Castle, Wellingborough, in January 1998 and went on to tour throughout the UK in 1998 and 1999."John Retallack's excellent adaptation of Melvin Burgess's controversial Carnegie Medal winning novel is splendidly unpatronising...a truly cautionary tale" (Independent)

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ISBN-13: 9780413738400
ISBN-10: 041373840X
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 80
Carton Quantity: 100
Product Dimensions: 5.01 x 0.24 x 7.74 inches
Weight: 0.14 pound(s)
Country of Origin: GB
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Drama | General
Grade Level: 7th Grade and up
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Reading Level: 0
Point Value: 0
Guided Reading Level: Not Applicable
Dewey Decimal: FIC
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Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down - not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehow, finally you have to come down. Commissioned and produced by Oxford Stage Company, Junk premiered at The Castle, Wellingborough, in January 1998 and went on to tour throughout the UK in 1998 and 1999."John Retallack's excellent adaptation of Melvin Burgess's controversial Carnegie Medal winning novel is splendidly unpatronising...a truly cautionary tale" (Independent)

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Author: Burgess, Melvin
Melvin Burgess is the author of many novels for young adult and middle-grade readers. Among them are "Nicholas Dane", "Doing It" (a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age), "The Ghost Behind the Wall" (Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year) and "Smack" (winner of Britain's Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Prize for Fiction, as well as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults). In 2001, he wrote the novelization of the film, Billy Elliot. Mr. Burgess lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, in England.
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