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  About the Author

  MALORIE BLACKMAN is acknowledged as one of today’s most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. Noughts & Crosses has won several prizes, including the Children’s Book Award. Malorie is also the only author to have won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award twice with Hacker and Thief! Her work has appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial. Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers.

  In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children’s books.

  In 2008, she received an OBE for her services to children’s literature.

  www.malorieblackman.co.uk

  By Malorie Blackman and published by Doubleday/Corgi Books:

  The Noughts & Crosses sequence

  Noughts & Crosses

  Knife Edge

  Checkmate

  Double Cross

  Boys Don’t Cry

  The Stuff of Nightmares

  A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E.

  Dangerous Reality

  Dead Gorgeous

  Hacker

  Pig-Heart Boy

  The Deadly Dare Mysteries

  Thief!

  Unheard Voices

  (An anthology of short stories and poems, collected by Malorie Blackman)

  For junior readers, published by Corgi Yearling Books:

  Cloud Busting

  Operation Gadgetman!

  Whizziwig and Whizziwig Returns

  For beginner readers, published by Corgi Pups/Young Corgi Books:

  Jack Sweettooth

  Snow Dog

  Space Race

  The Monster Crisp-Guzzler

  Audio editions available on CDs:

  Noughts & Crosses

  Knife Edge

  Checkmate

  Double Cross

  SNOW DOG

  AN RHCP DIGITAL EBOOK 9781407049410

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  This ebook edition published 2010

  Copyright © Oneta Malorie Blackman, 2010

  Illustrations copyright © Sami Sweeten, 2010

  First published in Great Britain by Corgi Pups, 2001

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