Nicholas Dane
Title:
Nicholas Dane
Author:
Burgess, Melvin.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First American edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Henry Holt, 2010.
©2009
Physical Description:
403 pages ; 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."
General Note:
Originally published: London : Andersen, 2009.
Language:
English
Reading Level:
014-up.
HL 810 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.2 16.0 141080.
Reading Counts RC High School 6.3 24 Quiz: 52314.
Subject Term:
ISBN:
9780805092035
Format :
Book
