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Noughts & Crosses (#1 Noughts and Crosses) by Malorie Blackman
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Noughts and Crosses Ser.
Now a major BBC TV series 'Stop it. You're all behaving like animals. Worse than animals - like blankers.' Sephy is a Cross: dark-skinned and beautiful, she lives a life of privilege and power. But she's lonely, and burns with injustice at the world she sees around her. Callum is a nought: pale-skinne ...Show more
Noughts & Crosses (Graphic #1) by Malorie Blackman
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Noughts and Crosses Graphic
Callum is a nought - an inferior white citizen in a society controlled by the black Crosses. Sephy is a Cross - and the daughter of one of the most powerful, ruthless men in the country. In their hostile, violent world, noughts and Crosses simply don't mix. But when Sephy and Callum's childhood friendsh ...Show more
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Category: Fiction | Series: NHB Modern Plays Ser.
"Noughts and Crosses" is about a black girl called Sephy and a white boy called Callum and their friendship in a world that's divided by the colour of your skin - and how their feelings for each other grow as they grow older and grow up. As Malorie Blackman herself says: 'I wanted to turn society as we ...Show more
Noughts and Crosses 1/3 by Malorie Blackman
Category: Fiction
Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a Nought - a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that's as far as it can go. Until the first steps are taken towards more social equality an ...Show more
Noughts and Crosses: Reader Rollercoasters by Malorie Blackman
Category: Fiction | Series: Rollercoasters Ser.
Callum is a nought - a second-class citizen; Sephy is a Cross. In their world, Noughts and Crosses don't mix. Can Callum and Sephy find a way to be together? In what has already become a modern classic, award-winning author Malorie Blackman tackles the issues of prejudice and racism in a way that will t ...Show more
Operation Gadgetman! by Malorie Blackman
Category: Children's
Beans calls her dad 'Gadgetman' because of the weird and wonderful gadgets he comes up with - everything from exploding biscuits to Spy Kits. But when Gadgetman accidentally invents a device that could be used to steal millions of pounds, the wrong people find out and Gadgetman is kidnapped!With the hel ...Show more
Peace Maker by Malorie Blackman
Category: Young Adult
Michela knows the law - everyone must wear a peace maker device at all times, and it must never be tampered with. Non-agression is her society's founding principle, and the peace maker means by which is it enforced. But Michela is desperate to experience the full range of human emotions in her own fanta ...Show more
Penguin Readers Level 3 : Noughts and Crosses by Blackman, Malorie
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Pearson English Graded Readers Ser.
Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make ...Show more
Pig-Heart Boy by Malorie Blackman
Category: Children's
Cameron is thirteen and in need of a heart transplant when a pioneering doctor approaches his family with a startling proposal. He can give Cameron a new heart - but from a pig. I Cameron is fed up with just sitting on the side of life, always watching and never doing. He has to try - to become the worl ...Show more
Robot Girl by Malorie Blackman
Category: EARLY READING
A futuristic drama full of suspense from the UK Children's Laureate 2013-2015. Claire is keen to find out what her dad has been working on in his lab. He's been really excited about it and Claire knows it must be something that will make him even more famous. But the big reveal isn't at all what she exp ...Show more
Sinclair the Wonder Bear by Malorie Blackman
Category: Fiction | Series: Blue go bananas
Sinclair is no ordinary teddy bear. At night, when his owner Emily is fast asleep, he becomes a Wonder Bear, flying all over the world, and magically changing himself into new materials to save people in danger. One night he's a very busy bear indeed. First in India, he changes into steel to mend a brok ...Show more
Snow Dog (Colour First Reader) by Malorie Blackman
Category: Series | Series: Colour First Reader
"It's going to be woof-onderful!" There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum and Dad don't want a dog. Then Granddad has an idea - he and Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog. Even better, he has some special clay, found at the end of a rainbow, so that the dog will ...Show more