Junk

Melvin Burgess is a British author of children's and young adult fiction, born in 1954, best known for his controversial novel Junk (1996), which depicts teenage heroin addiction and won the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. His debut novel The Cry of the Wolf (1990) was highly commended for the Carnegie Medal, and he has received additional accolades including the LA Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature for Doing It (2003) and election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.