Product Description

In a world where the two classes are divided by colour and never treated as equals, Sephy - a Cross and daughter of a top politician - is six months pregnant. The child's father, Callum, is a Nought, but worse, he is dead and Callum's brother is out for revenge. Can two wrongs make a right?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #133233 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-27
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 99 pages

From the Back Cover
Can two wrongs ever make a right?

Sephy is a Cross - the daughter of a top politician and a member of the ruling class.

She is also six months preganant.

But Sephy's baby will be a mixed-race child, it's father a nought - in a world where the two classes are divided by colour and never treated as equals. Even worse, the baby's father, Callum, is dead.

And now Sephy - and her sister, Minerva - must face a violent confrontation with Callum's brother, Jude, who is thirsting for revenge. For Jude reckons that Sephy was responsible for Callum's death...

A stunning novella that continues the tale told in Noughts and Crosses:
Winner of the Children's Book Award

From the author of several other award-winning titles, including Pig-Heart Boy, Hacker and Thief!

Specially published for World Book Day 2003

About the Author
Malorie Blackman:
Malorie Blackman worked as a database manager and systems programmer before becoming a full-time writer. Her reputation has steadily grown and she has been awarded a number of prizes including the WHSmith's Mind-Boggling Books Award and the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 award for HACKER, the Young Telegraph/Fully Booked award for THIEF! and, more recently, shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for PIG-HEART BOY. She was voted Voice/Excel Children's Writer of the Year in 1997. Her novel NOUGHTS AND CROSSES has won both the Children's Book Award and the Lancashire Children's Book Award 2002. THE TIMES recently described her as 'a bit of a national treasure.'

Customer Reviews

Malorie Blackman is a genius!!
Although it didn't take me long to read An Eye For An Eye, it was worth every penny I paid for it. I understand this book was a special one-off for World Book Day and as such had to be short story length but Malorie Blackman managed to put such tension and drama into a limited number of pages that I'm seriously wondering how she does it. I've now read Noughts and Crosses (one of my favourite books of all time), An Eye for an Eye and Knife Edge and I can't wait for the last one in the series. It's not exagerating or an overstatement to say that these books have changed my life. I hope Malorie Blackman never stops writing.

An Eye for a book and yet it is such a small book
This is a small but good book. It is the second book in the 'noughts and crosses series'.
Sephy is black and she is six months pregnant. The father, Callum was not only white but he was excuted.. So the baby will have a white dad and a black mum,and this is a serious issue in a world where you race matters, it could be the difference between life and death. The book is where Callum's brother ,Jude, finds Sephy and is hungagry for revenge because he belives that she was responisble for his brothers death. Little did he know that this was the night that Sephy sister, Minerva, decided to visit her. The book is only 52 pages long but those pages are filled with hatred, revenge and family loyalty.

Can the sequel compete?
It seems that some other reviewers have completely missed the point of "an eye for an eye" a short book, written for world book day, malorie blackman wanted to see weather a sequel would work, she could not have written a 300 page novel for world book day. With that out of the way, you can see this short book for what it is, a wonderful little teaser that is a must read for anyone who liked the first book, and due to the ending I will definetly be getting "knife edge". This short story is gripping and exciting. Although alot shorter, when you really look at it, it has the complex storylines and actions/consequences that we all loved in the first one. At just a pound it is well worth pickingup.