{"product_id":"9780312608620","title":"Smack","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eSmack\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Melvin Burgess\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI can give it up any time I want . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space. This time it was Lily and Rob and Gemma spending all that time to make me feel one of them, but it was the drug too. All that crap—about Gemma leaving me, about Mum and Dad, about leaving home. All that negative stuff. All the pain . . .\u003cbr\u003e     It just floated away from me, I just floated away from it . . . up and away . . .\u003cbr\u003e     I leaned back and I looked at the book and I looked at them and Gemma smiled at me, a big soft smile, and her eyes were like marbles.\u003cbr\u003e     \"Better?\" she said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmack\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the 1996 Carnegie Medal in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Searing . . . unflinching . . . seductive . . . insidious . . . flawless. This is one novel that will leave an indelible impression on all who read it.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, Starred Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cuts to the bone. . . . Based on actual people and incidents, this harrowing tale is as compellingly real as it is tragic.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews, Starred Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Heroin chic? Far from it.” —\u003ci\u003eTeen People\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book is powerful and calculated, intent on affecting readers and shattering pat illusions. . . . [B]rutally honest.” —\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal, Starred Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Smack is filled with cool British lingo and interesting characters, all the while subtly delivering a harrowing message about addiction.” —\u003ci\u003eSeventeen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Grim and cautionary novel.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Smack pulls no punches: Drugs can be fun. And \u003ci\u003eSmack\u003c\/i\u003e makes it relentlessly clear that fun comes at a vicious price. . . . It will leave you reeling.” —\u003ci\u003eDenver Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A]n honest, unpatronizing, unvarnished account of teen life on the skids.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] gritty, no punches-pulled chronicle.” —\u003ci\u003eNews and Observer, Raleigh, NC\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It does exactly what teenagers want a book to do. It tells the truth. It doesn't preach. It makes you think. . . .Smack is as addictive as the drug it profiles. You will not be able to put it down.” —\u003ci\u003eVOYA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book sticks with you.” —\u003ci\u003eSeattle Post Intelligencier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] boot-in-the-gut look at British kids on the dole and drugs.” —\u003ci\u003eToronto Globe \u0026amp; Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarnegie Medal, NYPLT Books for the Teen Age, Guardian Award (1997), Winner NYPL Books for the Teen Age, American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults (1999), American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults, Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library, Winner Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (1997), ALA Best Books for Young Adults, Guardian Award, School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, Publishers Weekly Best Children's Books of the Year, Long-listed School Library Best Books of the Year, Winner Carnegie Medal (1996), Long-listed ALA Best Books for Young Adults (1999), Long-listed Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312608620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Square Fish","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40637266919630,"sku":"9780312608620","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_05047c04-4bbc-4822-829f-e655120178af.jpg?v=1639014235","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312608620","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}