Knife Edge

By Author / Illustrator

Malorie Blackman

Genre

Representation & Inclusion

Age range(s)

11+

Publisher

Penguin Random House Children's UK

ISBN

9780552548922

Format

Paperback / softback

Published

30-06-2005

Synopsis

WHEN TRUTH AND JUSTICE ARE NO LONGER BLACK AND WHITE ISSUES . . . Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father . . . Jude is a Nought. Eaten up with bitterness, he blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered . . .Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?A razor-sharp and intensely moving novel, the second in the Noughts & Crosses sequence.

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