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. Until the firs
Noughts and CrossesReeks
Deze aangrijpende serie onderzoekt raciale vooroordelen en sociale ongelijkheid in een alternatieve realiteit waar twee sterk verschillende samenlevingen met elkaar botsen. Gedwongen scheiding en diepgewortelde vooroordelen bemoeilijken de levens van personages die ernaar streven schijnbaar onoverkomelijke barrières te overwinnen. De verhalen zitten vol spanning en emotie, en volgen dappere protagonisten die het aandurven de status quo uit te dagen en te vechten voor gerechtigheid. Het is een tijdloze verkenning van liefde, verlies en het verlangen naar een betere wereld.
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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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Knife edge
- 364bladzijden
- 13 uur lezen
This thought-provoking and often provocative look at racism is a sequel to the award-winning Noughts & Crosses .For fourteen years, Sephy, a singer, struggles to raise her mixed-race child in an apartheid society, telling Callie Rose very little about her father, and trying to make her mark in the music business where she also has to deal with prejudice. But suddenly and dramatically, Callie discovers the truth about her parentage -- that her father, Callum, was hanged for terrorism! Can mother and daughter heal the rift that now opens between them? And can Callie ignore the pain of the past as she takes her own steps towards her future? This is a riveting and page-turning novel for ages twelve and up that will confirm Malorie Blackman’s status as one of today’s top authors for young readers.From the Hardcover edition.
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Checkmate
- 510bladzijden
- 18 uur lezen
Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows into a young adult, she unexpectedly discovers the truth about her parentage and becomes determined to find out more, to honour both sides of her heritage. But her father's family has a complicated history - one tied up with the fight for equality for the nought population. And as Rose takes her first steps away from Sephy and into this world, she finds herself drawn inexorably into more and more danger. Suddenly it's a game of very high stakes that can only have one winner...
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Just this once . . . Please let me get away with it just this once . . . Tobey wants a better life - for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few 'deliveries', just this once, would it hurt to say 'yes'? One small decision can change everything . . . The fourth novel in Malorie Blackman's powerful Noughts & Crosses sequence.
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Crossfire
- 496bladzijden
- 18 uur lezen
"Continues the story of forbidden love between noughts and crosses. Thirty-four years have elapsed since Sephy- a Cross got together with Callum - a nought. While life is now very different, past prejudices can come back to haunt
