. . . "Young adult works" . . . . . . . . "Fiction" . . . . . "Urban fiction" . "Young adult fiction" . . . "For Jake, playing his guitar is his only respite from life with his alcoholic mother. When he runs away from home to escape his mother's violence, he ends up in a squat and resorts to busking to earn some cash. But will music help him get home? Gritty urban story. Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers." . "Wasted" .