- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Puffin; New Ed edition (26 Sep 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 014036983X
- ISBN-13: 978-0140369830
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 450,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Someone mad was screaming at them from the upstairs window of a house next to the station. It was a girl.
'Oh, that's April. Don't mind her...Deaf and dumb, see.'
Abandoned by his father to a life of poverty, Tony is angry with everyone, and desperately lonely. April Dean, the deaf girl, needs friends too. But their growing relationship arouses deep prejudices which threaten to engulf not only Tony and April but also the whole village.
This moving and powerful love story is about two very different people, worlds apart.
About the Author
Melvin Burgess is regarded as one of the best writers in contemporary children's literature. In 1997 his controversial bestseller Junk won the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children's Fiction Award. It was also shortlisted for the 1998 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year. Four of his novels have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal: The Cry of the Wolf, And Angel for May, The Baby and the Fly Pie and The Ghost Behind the Wall. Melvin lives in Manchester with his two children.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I don't usually get intrested enough in a book but I couldn't put this down. It's very emotional and heart breaking. It's about a deaf and dumb girl who is treated badly like scum by the people of her village the boys sexually abuse her and on one occasion rape her. This story envolved April and a newcomer to the village Tony who comes from a very rich family but his parents have split leaviing him and his mother to fend for themselves. This has a suprising ending. Good reading from start to finish Melvin Burgess twists and turns are superb. Read this book if your boy, girl,teen or adult this book is just so off da hook.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is brilliant. It was my first book by Melvin Burgess and I'll definitely read another. The characterisation he uses is amazing, you feel really angry at the people in the story. I found myself thinking 'What a little brat' at the boy, but the way he develops changed my attitude without me noticing. You feel the feelings that the characters must feel and Mr. Burgess has a wonderful way of setting up disasters that make you cringe! You want to jump into the book and stop whatever's happening so that it ends happily. This book leaves you thinking about every detail and how the people in it react to things for days... I would recommend it to anyone interested in a great read.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
a powerful love story about two very different people worlds apart. Roll on the next book!!!
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Grim early work from one of the best YA authors
Loving April (orig. 1995) is one of Melvin Burgess' early books, published a year before his chart-topping, media-exciting Junk. Read more
Published 6 months ago by J. Shurin
Great book... full of emotion.
This book is brilliant. It was my first book by Melvin Burgess and I'll definitely read another. The characterisation he uses is amazing, you feel really angry at the people in... Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2001 by carys.bonkerz@btinternet.com
10/10 for this book
A story that is set in the 1920s about a family who live near a railway-station. April's father runs away from his wife and daughter to lie with someone else so poor April and her... Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2000
An excellent book but it made me cry.
Aprils nature was so happy and lively and carefree I loved evrything about her. I just couldn't believe how cruel the people in the vllage were to her, I just wanted to climb... Read more
Published on 20 Oct 1999
An excellent book but it made me cry.
Aprils nature was so happy and lively and carefree I loved evrything about her. I just couldn't believe how cruel the people in the vllage were to her, I just wanted to climb... Read more
Published on 20 Oct 1999
An emotional story about a young deaf girl.
I really enjoyed this book.In places it made me laugh and in places it made me cry. I loved April's character she was so happy and lively even though the village tried to oppress... Read more
Published on 19 Oct 1999
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