Portal:Children's literature/Selected article/May2007

The Noughts & Crosses series by Malorie Blackman is a sequence of three young adult, science fiction, novels and a novella set in a fictional, racist and dystopia world. Noughts & Crosses series is set in a world where the people with slightly darker skin colour (Crosses) are dominant over the lighter skin coloured people (noughts). The books' world is quite similar to early 21st century Britain but racism and prejudice are much more overt. The series tells the story of several characters from two interlinked families with very different positions in society. (More)