Callum also starts to suspect that Dad and Jude are part of the Liberation Militia, an underground resistance group. At home, Callum’s m um and dad fight about how to best fight for racial equality, while his brother Jude and sister Lynette (who’s mentally ill and suffers delusions that she’s a Cross) butt heads. Over the next few weeks, life gets harder for Sephy and Callum. A mob outside protests the nought students, and Sephy gets the mob to disperse by screaming that her classmates are acting like “blankers.” Callum is hurt and offended, so Sephy agrees not to use the slur again. The first day of school is horrible for Sephy and Callum both. Hadley, meeting with a nought man and saying that he’s angry “ blankers” (a terrible slur for noughts) are attending his daughter’s school. That night, Sephy overhears her father, Mr. Callum, though, isn’t sure he and Sephy should act like friends at school-he’s a nought and she’s a Cross, and noughts and Crosses don’t mix. Sephy is almost 14 and is thrilled that 15-year-old Callum will be attending her school this year to integrate it. Voted as one of the UK's best-loved books, Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses is a seminal piece of YA fiction a true modern classic.Best friends Callum and Sephy are at their secret spot on the beach, where they kiss to see what it’s like. and which will have shocking repercussions for generations to come. Then - in spite of a world that is fiercely against them - these star-crossed lovers choose each other.īut this is love story that will lead both of them into terrible danger. Noughts and Crosses are fated to be bitter enemies - love is out of the question. They've been friends since they were children, and they both know that's as far as it can ever go. But she's lonely, and burns with injustice at the world she sees around her.Ĭallum is a nought: pale-skinned and poor, he's considered to be less than nothing - a blanker, there to serve Crosses - but he dreams of a better life. Sephy is a Cross: dark-skinned and beautiful, she lives a life of privilege and power.

'Stop it! You're all behaving like animals! Worse than animals - like blankers!'

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman.

Noughts and crosses audio book