{"product_id":"smack-melvin-burgess-9780312608620","title":"Smack","description":"\u003cp\u003eI can give it up any time I want . . . \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmack\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the 1996 Carnegie Medal in Literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melvin Burgess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0312608624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312608620\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Square Fish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 4.6\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e28489 \/ Smack\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Melvin Burgess","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44045828325631,"sku":"9780312608620","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c8947a1a-b0d6-4486-8949-21b6bf3768ca.jpg?v=1684981004","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/smack-melvin-burgess-9780312608620","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}