# Knife edge (Noughts & Crosses #2)

**Author(s):** Malorie Blackman
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**Genres:** middle-grade, literary-fiction, childrens, dystopian
**Pages:** 368
**Publisher:** Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
**Published:** Wed Jan 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781416900191
**ISBN-10:** 1416900195
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/knife-edge-noughts-crosses-2

## Description

A razor-sharp and intensely moving novel, the second in the Noughts & Crosses trilogy.Sephy is a Cross, one of the privileged in a society where the ruling Crosses treat the pale-skinned noughts as inferiors. But her baby daughter has a nought father - Callum. Eaten up with bitterness, Callum's brother Jude, blames Sephy for the terrible losses his family has suffered. Now Jude's life rests on a knife edge. Will Sephy be forced, once again, to take sides?

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**Themes:** Revenge, Grief