Book description
'We're the rubbish kids, losers and orphans. Everyday we go out on to
the Tip to sort rubbish for Mother Shelly.'
For Sham, Fly Pie and his sister Jane, this is the grim reality of
their lives. Then one day everything changes when they find a baby on
the Tip - a baby worth seventeen million pounds . . .
This discovery takes them into a savage, lonely city and so begins
an endless fight for survival.
Melvin Burgess was born in London and brought up in Surrey and
Sussex. He has had a variety of jobs before becoming a full-time writer.
Before his first novel, he had short stories published and a play
broadcast on Radio 4. He is now regarded as one of the best writers in
contemporary children's literature.
