Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #674623 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 400 pages

Customer Reviews

INCREDIBLE!!!!
Noughts and crosses. It literally took my breath away. I think its one of the best books ive ever read! Malorie manages to keep you transfixed all the way though, till the very end.

She has turned the world on its head and talks about a very painful subject - racism, within the very things that keep us alive; Love, Hate, family, friendship and trust.

Its about a black girl called Sephy and a white boy called Callum and there friendship in a world thats divided by the colour of your skin, and how their feelings for eachother grow as they grow older and grow up.

Its a must read Book.
Go on, give it a shot!

the most amazing thinf ive ever read
Noughts and Crosses...
well there is so much to say about this book. i started reading it because my friend recomended it but by the first few chapters i was hypnotised and over a few days there wasn't much i could think about but this book. Half of the time i was reading the book, the other half i was tihnking about it. it's a book that grips your imagination and with such a vivid reality of racism you get caought up in the plot you almost become the characters. i was dissapointed with the ending because i like the classic fairy tale ending but the following books in the trilogy made up for the ending. Knifes Endge and Checkmate both extremely amazing books but Noughts and Crosses was definately my favourite probably because of the romance mixed in with the storyline.
if i had to read a book again it would defineatley be noughts and crosses.

i recommend anybody with a passion should read this book!
read it, read it, read it!

it is about a society that is lead by the black people or the crosses who feel they are superior to the white skinned noughts. Sephy is a black girl and her father is very important in the biast society. Callum is a white skinned nought. The two childhood friends start to realise that in a world split in two their friendship is frowned upon. They fight predjudice and develop their relationship but can they win when they have the world against them? What sacrafices and desires will they loose?

A REAL EYE OPENER!!!
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.