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.