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Author:

Burgess, Melvin.

Title:

Nicholas Dane / Melvin Burgess.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publisher:

Henry Holt,

Copyright Date:

2010, c2009

Description:

403 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Orphans--Juvenile fiction.
Sex crimes--Juvenile fiction.
Child abuse--Juvenile fiction.
Emotional problems of children--Juvenile fiction.
England--Juvenile fiction.
Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952---Juvenile fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Sexual abuse--Fiction.
Child abuse--Fiction.
Emotional problems--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952---Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Child sexual abuse--Fiction.
Child abuse--Fiction.
Emotional problems--Fiction.
England--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--1952---Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.

Summary:

Fourteen-year-old Nick is sent into England's institutional care system after his single mother dies of a heroin overdose, where he endures harsh punishment and sexual abuse, and witnesses horrors on a daily basis before finally emerging, emotionally scarred but still alive.

Indexed by:

School Library Journal, December 2010
Booklist, November 2010
Kirkus Review, November 2010

ISBN:

080509203X
9780805092035 (trade : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2009051779

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

NKPD993 -- Eagle Grove Memorial Library (Eagle Grove)

EBPE325 -- Estherville Public Library (Estherville)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

CNPC792 -- Montezuma Public Library (Montezuma)