Can two wrongs ever make a right? Sephy is a Cross - the daughter of a top politician and a member of the ruling class. She is also six months pregnant. But Sephy's baby will be a mixed-race child, its father a nought - in world where the two classes are divided by colour and never treated as equals. Even worse, the baby's father, Callum, is dead. And now Sephy - and her sister, Minerva - must face a violent confrontation with Callum's brother, Jude, who is thirsting for revenge. For Jude reckons that Sephy was responsible for Callum's death.
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Can two wrongs ever make a right? Sephy is a Cross - the daughter of a top politician and a member of the ruling class. She is also six months pregnant. But Sephy's baby will be a mixed-race child, its father a nought - in world where the two classes are divided by colour and never treated as equals. Even worse, the baby's father, Callum, is dead.
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Malorie Blackman has won many prizes for her fiction, including the WHSmith's Mind-Boggling Books Award and the Young Telegraph/Gimme5 award for "Hacker", the Young Telegraph/Fully Booked award for "Thief!" and a shortlisting for the Carnegie Medal for "Pig-Heart Boy". Her novel "Noughts and Crosses" has won both the Children's Book Award and the the Sheffield Children's Book Award 2002.
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ISBN
9780552549257
Publisert
2003-02-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Corgi Childrens
Vekt
55 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
6 mm
Aldersnivå
Y, 03
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
64

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Biographical note

MALORIE BLACKMAN has written over sixty books and is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her work, including the Red House Children's Book Award and the Fantastic Fiction Award. Malorie has also been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. In 2005 she was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children's books, and in 2008 she received an OBE for her services to children's literature. She has been described by The Times as 'a national treasure'. Malorie Blackman was the Children's Laureate 2013-15.