Noughts + Crosses /

Blackman, Malorie,

Noughts + Crosses / Malorie Blackman. - London : Penguin Books, Ⓒ2017. - 437 pages : illustration (black and white) ; 20 cm. - The Noughts & Crosses sequence Book 1 . - Noughts & Crosses sequence. .

Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2001.

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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Dystopias.
Young adult fiction.
Teenage Fiction.
General.