Right here in black and white: Malorie’s Romeo and Juliet of race strife. It’ll tear out your heart and stamp on it, and you’ll beg for more. Sephy and Callum have been best friends since they were tiny. But now they’re growing up, and hanging out is not smart. Callum is a white Nought: lowest of the low in a society run by the black Crosses. Sephy is a rich and privileged Cross: daughter of a very powerful man. As friendship turns to attraction, a time-bomb starts to tick. And when it blows, it’ll smash your heart to bits…

Malorie Blackman’s shocking story of love, race and prejudice

Now in a storming graphic format bursting with visual life

Incredible artwork from rising manga star John Aggs

Malorie Blackman was Children’s Laureate 2013-2015

This book contains mature content.

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780857531957

Publisher

Doubleday Children's Books

Date published

July 2nd, 2015

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Other details

208 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman has written over fifty books and is acknowledged as one of today’s most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. Her best-loved books include the highly acclaimed Noughts and Crosses sequence and Pig Heart Boy, which also became a major BBC TV series. She has been awarded numerous prizes for her work, including the Red House Children’s Book Award, and 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’ and was the Children’s Laureate 2013-15.