Quote:&',Don&',t mind her&.,Deaf and dumb, see.&', It doesn&',t matter whether April Dean can speak or not: no one&',s listening. She needs a friend. So does Tony. But it&',s not easy to break through the barriers that isolate them. Their growing relationship triggers deep prejudices that threaten them both. Melvin Burgess is the best-selling author of Junk, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Guardian Children s Fiction Award & , &&lsquo,Tony seems to be very angry and