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Hardback448 pages
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6th November 2008ISBN
9780552559607Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Double Cross
Malorie Blackman
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Julia Eccleshare's comment:
Thrilling and thoughtful, Double Cross adds a fourth instalment to Malorie Blackman’s acclaimed Noughts and Crosses sequence. Following in her parent’s footsteps, Callie Rose is determined to fight for equality between races and the kind of society she believes in. But violence from the past threatens to rob her of the future she craves while her friend Tobey is thrown off the course of his life by the escalating violence of the gang culture that surrounds him. A fast paced thriller, Double Cross also takes a thoughtful look at the escalating violence of contemporary society.
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Synopsis
Double Cross by Malorie BlackmanPlease see below for a video of 'Double Cross' by Felix Wiedemann created for The Book Video Awards 2009. Students of The National Film and Television School were asked to create Book trailers. The Award was sponsored by Play.com
Everyone assumes the bomb that killed Callie Rose's grandmother was the work of a nought terrorist. But Callie Rose knows the truth. Her boyfriend Tobey is worried about his own future. Tobey hopes to go to university, get a good job and leave the dangerous streets of his childhood behind. Then he is offered the chance to earn some ready money.
About The Author
Malorie Blackman had a variety of jobs before she became a full time writer and spent many years working as a Database Manager for Reuters travelling extensively within Europe and the United States.
After 82 rejection letters, her first novel, Not So Stupid!, was a selected title for the 1991 Feminist Book Fortnight, and Malorie participated in the first BBC TV Black Women’s Screenwriting Workshop in 1991. She has written a number of books for young readers including the Whizziwig series, which have been dramatised successfully for children’s television.
In her spare time, Malorie likes going to the cinema, the theatre and watching TV, enjoys playing computer and board games, and reads absolutely everything...except Westerns.
She lives with her husband and daughter in Kent along with a large collection of books, over 15,000 at the last count.
In the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2008, it was announced that Malorie is to receive an OBE for her contribution to children’s literature.
Malorie was awarded the prestigious Eleanor Farjeon award in 2005.
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