Knife Edge Award-winning author by Malorie Blackman (author) (UK edition)

Sephy is alone and pregnant, living in an apartheid state. She ought to be close to the top of a society where dark-skinned Crosses like her have the best of everything. But her baby daughter has a Nought father, Callum. A father whom Sephy’s own father executed. Now Sephy and her unborn baby are shunned, condemned by Noughts and Crosses alike. Eaten up with bitterness, Callum’s brother Jude blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered. He wants revenge. Lives are resting on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780552548922

Publisher

Corgi Childrens

Date published

May 2nd, 2005

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 4.4; Upper years; 12.0 points

Other details

448 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

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.