"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 siter Jane, this is the grim reality of their lives. Then one day everything vhanges when they find a baby on the Tip - a baby worth £17million.

The events that follow take them into a savage, lonely city and so begins an endless fight for survival.

"Gritty and realistic, this novel touches and challenges, and certainly can't be put down." - BOOKS FOR KEEPS

NOTE: Melvin Burgess writes novels for mature youngsters. His imaginative fiction is very realistic and graphic, confronting the modern world as it is. Junk, for instance, documents drug abuse by its teenage characters.