Noughts + crosses /
By: Blackman, Malorie [author.].
Series: The noughts and crosses sequence: Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2017Description: 437 pages : genealogical table ; 20 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780141378640; 9780141378640:; 0141378646.Other title: Noughts and crosses.Subject(s): Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction | Terrorism -- Juvenile fiction | Social classes -- Juvenile fiction | Prejudices -- Fiction | Terrorism -- Fiction | Social classes -- Fiction | Young adult fiction
Genre/Form: Young adult fiction. | Dystopias. | Dystopian fiction. | Fiction. | Juvenile works. | Young adult works. | Dystopian fiction. | Young adult fiction.DDC classification: 808.899282 Summary: Sephy is a Cross -- a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Nought -- a "colourless" member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood, but that's as far as it can go. In their world, Noughts and Crosses simply don't mix. Against a background of prejudice and distrust, intensely highlighted by violent terrorist activity, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum -- a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger. Can they possibly find a way to be together? (Fantastic Fiction).Summary: Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Nought - a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that's as far as it can go. Against a background of prejudice, distrust and mounting terrorist violence, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum - a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger.
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First published by Doubleday 2001. Also published with title: Black and white.
Includes preview of the next book in the Noughts & crosses series: Knife edge.
Sephy is a Cross -- a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Nought -- a "colourless" member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood, but that's as far as it can go. In their world, Noughts and Crosses simply don't mix. Against a background of prejudice and distrust, intensely highlighted by violent terrorist activity, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum -- a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger. Can they possibly find a way to be together? (Fantastic Fiction).
Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Nought - a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that's as far as it can go. Against a background of prejudice, distrust and mounting terrorist violence, a romance builds between Sephy and Callum - a romance that is to lead both of them into terrible danger.