Junk - Puffin Teenage Fiction Author:Melvin Burgess Tar loves Gemma, but Gemma doesn't want to be tied down-not to anyone or anything. Gemma wants to fly. But no one can fly forever. One day, somehow, finally, you have to come down. "Retallack's excellent adaptation of ... Burgess's controversial Carnegie Medal winning novel is splendidly unpatronizing ... a truly cautionary tale."-Indepen... more »dent "Junk is perhaps the clearest sign yet that British theatre for children and young people is beginning to grow up."-Guardian "Melvin Burgess is a writer of the highest quality with exceptional powers of insight."