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Knife Edge
Malorie Blackman

Noughts & Crosses: vol. 2, Issue #0

Knife Edge

Corgi (30 Jun 2005)
9780552548922
| Paperback
449 pages | 130 x 196 mm | English
$ 19.95 | Value: $ 19.95
Dewey 823.914

Genre

  • Young Adult Fiction

Subject

  • Juvenile Fiction / Family / General
  • Mothers And Daughters
  • Race Discrimination
  • Racially Mixed Children
  • Young Adult Fiction

Plot

This thought-provoking and often provocative look at racism is a sequel to the award-winning Noughts & Crosses. For fourteen years, Sephy, a singer, struggles to raise her mixed-race child in an apartheid society, telling Callie Rose very little about her father, and trying to make her mark in the music business where she also has to deal with prejudice. But suddenly and dramatically, Callie discovers the truth about her parentage—that her father, Callum, was hanged for terrorism! Can mother and daughter heal the rift that now opens between them? And can Callie ignore the pain of the past as she takes her own steps towards her future? This is a riveting and page-turning novel for ages twelve and up that will confirm Malorie Blackman's status as one of today's top authors for young readers.