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Checkmate CD (Abridged) concludes the award-winning Noughts & Crosses trilogy. Rose, who has a Cross mother and a nought father, learns the truth about her heritage in a world where pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors. As she comes of age, Rose seeks to honor both sides of her identity, but the history of her father’s family—linked to the fight for nought equality—draws her into escalating danger. A high-stakes game of survival and resistance unfolds, challenging prejudice and the possibility of a future free from the past.
First publish date: 2005
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Malorie Blackman
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