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Nicholas Dane / Melvin Burgess.
- Title
- Nicholas Dane / Melvin Burgess.
- Author
- Burgess, Melvin.
- Publication
- New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PZ7.B9166 Ni 2010 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 403 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- When his single mother dies of a heroin overdose, fourteen-year-old Nick is sent into England's institutional care system, where he endures harsh punishment, sexual abuse, and witnesses horrors on a daily basis before emerging, emotionally scarred but still alive. Loosely based on "Oliver Twist."
- Subject
- Since 1952
- Coming of age > Fiction
- Orphans > Fiction
- Sexual abuse > Fiction
- Child abuse > Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- Orphans > Juvenile fiction
- Child sexual abuse > Juvenile fiction
- Child abuse > Juvenile fiction
- Emotional problems of teenagers > Juvenile fiction
- Emotional problems > Fiction
- England > Fiction
- Great Britain > History > Elizabeth II, 1952- > Fiction
- England > Juvenile fiction
- Great Britain > History > Elizabeth II, 1952-2022 > Juvenile fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- History
- Juvenile works
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780805092035 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009051779
- OCLC
- 504222634
- SCSB-12887810
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library