Book description
WHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES . . .
Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the
ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her
baby daughter has a nought father . . . Jude is a Nought. Eaten up
with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family
has suffered . . .
Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once
again, to take sides?
A razor-sharp and intensely moving novel, the second in the
Noughts & Crosses sequence.
Malorie Blackman's books have won several awards, including the
Children's Book Award for
Noughts and Crosses
. She has also won the W. H. Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award and the
Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award, as well as being shortlisted for the
Carnegie Medal.
Pig-Heart Boy
was adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. In 2008 Malorie was
honoured with an OBE for her services to Children's Literature.
