New Releases by Malorie Blackman

A powerful short story featuring Sephy and Callum, stars of the original dystopian bestseller, Noughts and Crosses. First released exclusively for World Book Day 2012.

Enfin traduit en français, le livre culte de Malorie Blackman : best-seller en Angleterre, il a raflé tous les prix de littérature jeunesse lors de sa sortie en 2002. Il figure depuis dans le classement de la BBC des 100 meilleurs livres toutes catégories confondues (le « BBC Big Read Top 100 »). Une magnifique histoire d''amour qui explore avec une force et une justesse incroyable le problème de la différence et du racisme : la force tragique de Roméo et Juliette doublée d''une réflexion politique et critique, digne d''un George Orwell dans 1984. Un très grand livre appelé, sans nul doute, à devenir un classique ! Visiter le site de la collection Macadam.

At her new school, Mira discovers she has a very unusual teacher - a teacher who turns into a real-life dragon when she eats crisps! This comes in very handy when the class run into trouble on a school trip to the seaside...

Davey is the new boy in class and Sam can''t stand him. He thinks Davey is a Grade A moron. But when the two are thrown together Sam discovers that Davey''s eccentric way of looking at the world makes life a lot more fun. Until the day something terrible happens... A funny and sad story, told completely in verse.

You''re about to receive your A-level results & then a future of university & journalism awaits. But the day they''re due to arrive your old girlfriend turns up unexpectedly - with a baby. Your baby. You agree to look after it, just for an hour or two. Then she doesn''t come back - and your life changes forever.

Tobey est amoureux de Callie. Fou amoureux. Pour son anniversaire, il veut lui offrir un cadeau digne d''elle, un cadeau de valeur. Alors il va accepter le pire : effectuer une livraison pour le gang de McAuley. En échange d''un peu d''argent. Un peu d''argent qui le conduira directement en enfer...

Jackson Winstanley Sweettooth (or Jack for short) is a mouse who lives with Matthew and the rest of the Bailey family. He gets the blame for a lot of things - Mrs Bailey thinks he''s swallowed her ruby and nibbled at Shani''s birthday cake. And Jack''s biggest enemy is Beauregard Battersby-Bunge, the pesky ginger cat from next door. But everything gets better when another mouse, Blossom, comes to stay with the Baileys - soon Blossom and Jack are the best of friends!

A brother and sister have fallen into comas following a rail crash. Death comes to visit them and asks them both to tell him the most frightening stories they can. They take it in turns, each trying to tell a more scary story than the one before.

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 up she becomes determined to find out more about her parentage. As Rose takes her first steps away from Sephy and into her father’s world, she finds herself drawn inexorably into danger.

" J''ai compris que je ne savais rien de la manière dont je devais m''occuper de toi, Callie. Tu n''étais plus une chose sans nom, sans réalité. Tu n''étais plus un idéal romantique ou une simple manière de punir mon père. Tu étais une vraie personne. Et tu avais besoin de moi pour survivre. Callie Rose. Ma chair et mon sang. A moitié Callum, à moitié moi, et cent pour cent toi. Pas une poupée, pas un symbole, ni une idée, mais une vraie personne avec une vie toute neuve qui s''ouvrait à elle. Et sous mon entière responsabilité. " Imaginez un monde. Un monde où tout est noir ou blanc. Où ce qui est noir est riche puissant et dominant. Où ce qui est blanc est pauvre, opprimé et méprisé. Noirs et Blancs ne se mélangent pas. Jamais. Pourtant, Callie Rose est née. Enfant de l''amour pour Sephy et Callum, ses parents. Enfant de la honte pour le monde entier. Chacun doit alors choisir son camp et sa couleur. Mais pour certains, cette couleur prend une teinte dangereuse... celle de la haine.

One-line descriptionA razor-sharp sequel to the award-winning NOUGHTS & CROSSES, set nine months later, the second in a series of three novels set in this world

''This is the story of Mum''s latest miracle - VIMS - and how it almost got me killed . . .'' VIMS - the Virtual Interactive Mobile System - is the creation of Dominic''s scientist mum. And it''s amazing. An artificial intelligence masterpiece controlled by a single glove and a special pair of glasses, it can disarm a car bomb, search through underground pipes - or hold a baby . . . But then VIMS attacks violently and without warning, and Dominic realizes it is no longer a fantastic game.

It’s a normal Friday evening for Elliot — until the police knock on the door and tell him his mum’s in serious trouble! A security video clearly shows her breaking into a giant pharmaceutical company on behalf of the environmental action group A.N.T.I.D.O.T.E. Elliot can hardly believe it. His mom’s a secretary, isn’t she? Not a SPY! And even worse — now she’s gone on the run.

When Heather and her boyfriend Andrew go on holiday together to Europe they escape from the disapproval of their families, but a chance meeting with a stranger leads to a nightmare they could never have imagined. Suggested level: junior secondary.

The plans that Maxine, the Girl Wonder, and her younger brothers, the Terrific Twins, come up with usually mean trouble for their mother.