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 Crosses Serie
Questa avvincente serie esplora il pregiudizio razziale e la disuguaglianza sociale in una realtà alternativa in cui si scontrano due società nettamente diverse. La separazione forzata e i pregiudizi radicati complicano le vite dei personaggi che cercano di superare barriere apparentemente insormontabili. Le narrazioni sono piene di tensione ed emozione, seguendo coraggiosi protagonisti che osano sfidare lo status quo e lottare per la giustizia. È un'esplorazione senza tempo di amore, perdita e desiderio di un mondo migliore.
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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
- 364pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
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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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 up she becomes determined to find out more about her parentage. As Rose takes her first steps away from Sephy and into her father’s world, she finds herself drawn inexorably into danger.
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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
- 496pagine
- 18 ore di lettura
"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
