Friday, October 7, 2011

Smack- Melvin Burgess


As teenagers Tar and Gemma run away, they find a place that they can call home. They try to piece everything together, and Tar thinks he has the perfect life with his girlfriend Gemma. Until he is introduced to SMACK. At first, it leaves him euphoric thinking things can only get better, but little does he know they will turn for the worst. "I mean, you've gotta take risks, we'd all been scared about ODing, or about getting stuck forever on junk, or about buggering up our veins, that sort of stuff. But that's just normal. This time was different..."
Check out this winner of a Carnegie medal, Smack, featured at the Goldstein Library.


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