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Noughts and Crosses

by Malorie Blackman

Publ: Corgi Children's Books

 

Callum is a Nought – a second class citizen in a world run by the ruling Crosses...Sephy is a Cross, the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the country...

 

In their world, Noughts and Crosses simply don't mix. And as hostility turns to violence, can Callum and Sephy possibly find a way to be together?.They are determined to try.

 

And then the bomb explodes....

 

Winner of the FCBG Award and Lancashire Children's Book Award

 

This is a gripping novel for older readers (9+). It is startling and provocative, staying with you long after you have read it.

Malorie Blackman was born on 8 February 1962.  She wanted to be an English teacher but grew up to become a systems programmer instead. She earned a HNC at Thames Polytechnic and is a graduate of the National Film and Television School.


Blackman married her Scottish husband Neil in the 1990s and their daughter Elizabeth was born in 1995. Blackman has described herself, "I'm just Malorie Blackman – a black woman writer."

 

Private school education was funded through a series of grants offered to her through her "exceptional writing" and her parents funded the rest of the fees. This influenced Blackman's first book, Not So Stupid, which was a collection of horror and science fiction stories for young adults, published in November 1990.

 

Since then she has written more than fifty children's books, including novels and short story collections, and also television scripts and a stage play. Her work has won more than fifteen awards.

 

Blackman's television scripts include episodes of the long-running, children's drama Byker Grove, as well as television adaptations of her novels Whizziwig and Pig-Heart Boy.


Blackman's award-winning Noughts & Crosses series, exploring love, racism, and violence, is set in a fictional dystopia. Explaining her choice of title, in a 2007 interview for the BBC's Blast website, Blackman said noughts and crosses is "...one of those games that nobody ever plays after childhood, because nobody ever wins..."

 

Narrative source: Wikipedia

 

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Thief

Malorie Blackman

Publ: Corgi Children's Books

 

You're the new girl in school. You're just trying to fit in - and it's not working.

 

Then someone accuses you of theft, and you think things can't get any worse. Until you get caught in a freak storm . . .

 

The next thing you know, you're in the future. Being shot at for being out after curfew. You don't even recognise your hometown.

 

And you're heading for a confrontation from your worst nightmare. What if you could change the past to save the future?