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Noughts and Crosses
Malorie Blackman
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Description for Noughts and Crosses
Paperback. A story of a black girl called Sephy and a white boy called Callum and their friendship in a world that's divided by the colour of skin and how their feelings for each other grow as they grow older and grow up. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 10. Weight in Grams: 148.
Noughts and Crosses is about a black girl called Sephy and a white boy called Callum and their friendship in a world that's divided by the colour of your skin - and how their feelings for each other grow as they grow older and grow up. As Malorie Blackman herself says: 'I wanted to turn society as we know it on its head, with new names for the major divisions, ie Noughts (the underclass) and Crosses (the majority, ruling society). I wanted to see this new world through the eyes of the main two characters, Callum (a nought) and ... Read more
Noughts and Crosses is about a black girl called Sephy and a white boy called Callum and their friendship in a world that's divided by the colour of your skin - and how their feelings for each other grow as they grow older and grow up. As Malorie Blackman herself says: 'I wanted to turn society as we know it on its head, with new names for the major divisions, ie Noughts (the underclass) and Crosses (the majority, ruling society). I wanted to see this new world through the eyes of the main two characters, Callum (a nought) and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854599391
SKU
V9781854599391
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-46
About Malorie Blackman
Malorie Blackman can lay claim to being Britain's leading black children's author. She won a 2003 Smarties Award for Cloud Busting and the 2004 Fantastic Fiction Award for Noughts and Crosses, which is the first in a series of four books about racism set in a world where the traditional positions of black and white are reversed. Dominic Cooke's work ... Read more
Reviews for Noughts and Crosses
'Noughts and Crosses is about a black girl called Sephy and a white boy called Callum and their friendship in a world that's divided by the colour of your skin, and how their feelings for each other grow as they grow older and grow up' Amazon reader's review. As Malorie Blackman herself says: 'I wanted to turn society as we ... Read more