Burgess, Melvin

As the only remaining member of the Volson clan, fifteen-year-old Sigurd takes a sword forged from a knife given to his father by the god Odin and embarks on a mission to reunite his country.

Twelve-year-old David sneaks through the ventilation shafts in his London apartment building pulling pranks on his neighbors, which awakens the ghost of a boy with a grudge against the lonely, senile old man who lives upstairs.

Two ruthless gangs of warlords fight over the bombed-out remains of the city of London, until a truce is suggested by the patriarch of the Volson clan, who offers his fourteen-year-old daughter's hand to his blood rival.

Seventeen-year-old Sandra Francy is having way too much fun, and even though everyone wants her to calm down and be sensible, she refuses, until she is accidentally turned into a dog and finds that life as a canine has its own appeal.

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.".

Seventeen-year-old Sara wants so much to be famous that when a legendary, plastic-surgery-addicted rock star offers to take her under his wing and pay for her to have surgery too, she jumps at the chance despite her misgivings.

Three teenage friends, Dino, Jonathon, and Ben, confront the confusions, fears, and joys of adolescent male sexuality.

In mid-nineteenth century London, three young boys try to retrieve a valuable roll of copper from the bottom of the Thames River.

A hunter determined to wipe out every wolf in England almost succeeds, but then finds himself the prey.

Tam travels back in time to his small English town at the time of World War II, where his friendship helps a traumatized girl living on a farm just outside of town.