by Malorie Blackman (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
Edition: World Book Day Ed
Publisher: Corgi Childrens
Published: 27 Feb 2003
ISBN 10: 0552549258
ISBN 13: 9780552549257
Children’s book age: 12+ Years
Book Overview: 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.