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Melvin Burgess was born 25 April 1954, and is a British writer of children's fiction is best known as the author of Junk - one of the most acclaimed and controversial books for young people ever to have been written. Neither ... (more)
If you enjoyed:
How to Set a Fire and Why
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The Hit
by Melvin Burgess
Dana Czapnik is a 2018 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction from The New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2017, she was awarded an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Center for Fiction. Czapnik earned her MFA at Hunter ... (more)
If you enjoyed:
How to Set a Fire and Why
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The Falconer
by Dana Czapnik
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