| Noughts and Crosses (Noughts & Crosses Trilogy) | 
 enlarge | Author: Malorie Blackman
Publisher: Corgi Childrens
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  246 reviews
Sales Rank: 490
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0552555703
EAN: 9780552555708
ASIN: 0552555703
Publication Date: August 8, 2006
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Not For Younger Readers? September 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
(I am on my mum's account, just so you know)
Yes. Yes I am what you might class as being a "younger" reader at the age of 12. But, hey, just because I am young does not mean I can't grasp the concept of the book or that I'm too young to read some bits! I wouldn't have bought the book with what seldom pocket money I get if I hadn't been remotely intrested in the issues inside the book!
Anyway, that's beside the point.
Noughts and Crosses was the best book I have ever read. I don't know which hour I stayed up to to finish the book but it was very early morning. I couldn't put the book down for more than half an hour - literally - it only took me a day to read the book! (very, very good for my standards seeing as it took two weeks with the seventh Harry Potter!)
My point is that: If you are looking for an excellent book that displays modern issues - This is the one. Just read it!
Note: Also, I enjoyed the other two books of the sequence and I am sure the fourth book, "Double Cross," out in November with be a thrill to read too.
Genius! September 7, 2008
This is by far the most exciting and dramatic book I have ever read! Malorie Blackman used a clever and effective plot which illustrates the difficulties and hardships of racism. The contrast between the two main characters in the form of two diaries were remarkable and I felt like you personally knew the characters. Four different people recommended the book to me from all different age groups (15, 15, 42 and 70). I have enjoyed this book tremendously, and am prepared to recommend this book to people of all ages except the younger readers under around 13 and diverse backgrounds. May, I say that I am a harsh critic when it comes to books so giving this a 5-star review doesn't come very often from moi! So give it a read!
noughts and crosses August 17, 2008
i luv this book omg! i cnt find a book better dan this.
i had to read this book as part of my school exams and i thought it was going to be a boring book. bwoy was i wrong, i literary could not put the book down. The story also dealt with real life issues. And the whole callum and sephy thing made me want to read more and more of the book and the ending ws just..... i wont say bt put it this way, i cudnt wait to read knife edge(the 2nd part of the book)
u shud really buy this book.
Superb July 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this book. It is so different than anything I have ever read. The plot is amazing, the characters are really well potrayed and it is a "never put down" book. The chapters are set out through different characters eyes so you get all the aspects of this world. It completely blew me away. The other two books are also amazing.
DOES LOVE REALLY CONQUER ALL? July 12, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
as i work in a bookstore, on the children's department, i was told to read this over and over by collegues and customers...it then became apparent that it was on the school reading lists and then it all started if pupils were told to read it then it must be good. from the very first page u are drawn to to the charcters.
TH FIRST IN THE TRILOGY.welcome to the world where noughts and crosses don't mix, the noughts are white 2nd class citizens (so to speak) and the crosses are black 1st class citizens.
sephy and callum are the two characters that dictate the story. having grown up together and been torn apart by their families (an incident occurs in the prologue) the best friends have been secretly meeting up and a strong love between them grows. sephy is naive to the real world and callum is anything but. the first kiss is innocent and sweet but they know they can't be togther in a world full with prejudices. both their worlds are falling apart without the other knowing, which leads to the crossroad where the REAL story unravells.
sephy's mother is a drunk who pays no attention to either her or her sister and requests to be sent off to boarding school (with the added fact that the bond between sephy and callum has severly deteriorated) and so is sent off leaving a letter for callum behind, to see if he really wants to be with her then to meet him so they can run away together.
callum, on the other hand comes from a loving close nit family that deals with devestaing situations that results in the late arrival of sephy's letter and so joins his brother jude in the liberation militia (a terrorist group- that want to eliminate the ruling class: jude sees them as 'freedom fighters')
as several years pass by, both sephy and callum have changed, sephy still carries a tourch for callum but assumes he doesn't feel the same otherwise they would've been togther, whilst callum has become so involved in the L.M that he has closed off any feelings he has at all. the L.M plot to kidnap sephy as her father is a man of the government and hold her for ransom, but when the kidnap is done and both callum and sephy meet, both their feelings are reignited. callum realises his love for sephy and with a twist of fate sephy with his help escapes. several days later sephy's sister minerva realises her constant vomiting and a revelation is made.
with yet another devestaing twist callum mcgregor is prisoned for rape, the charges determine whether he spends his days in prison or sent to hang. sephy's news doesn't go down well with her high authoritied father and is blackmailed into either having an abortion which in turns determines callums life is saved or keep the baby and he is left to hang. the book ends on one of the best climaxes ever! malorie blackman's ability as an author is credible to say the least there really is never a dull moment in this book my emotions ran wild between the two characters you become so involved and the results are powerful. M.blackman has opened the eyes of young adults to the unfainess of society and the idea to reverse the sterotypical ideals of white and black is by far effective. please note to younger readers and parents concidering this trilogy for their children, the is one strong scene where sephy and callum are extremely intimate. i read noughts and crosses and knife edge in two days a piece i have just started checkmate and i'm on the edge of my seat!!!no other trilogy will compare to this thought provoking and brutally honest set.
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