Checkmate: Book 3 (Noughts and Crosses, #3)

by Malorie Blackman

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Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices. Sephy, her mother, has told Rose virtually nothing about her father, but as Rose grows into a young adult, she unexpectedly discovers the truth about her parentage and becomes determined to find out more. But her father's family has a complicated history - one tied up with the fight for equality for the nought population. And as Rose takes her...Read more
  • ISBN10 0552551945
  • ISBN13 9780552551946
  • Publish Date 7 September 2006 (first published 30 June 2005)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 August 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
  • Imprint Corgi Childrens