Also try Ryan Graudin's fantastic Wolf by Wolf, which is set in 1956 in an alternative history where the Nazis and Japan won the Second World War. Go for Samira Ahmed's Internment- set in a reality so familiar that it's just a whisker away, 17-year-old Layla is forced into an internment camp for Muslim-Americans along with her parents. The front cover of Internment, illustrated by Dana Ledl For more alternative history set in unpleasant regimes Sam Gayton's The Last Zoois also hotly recommended - it's a great adventure which hints at dystopia but remains hopeful.

You could also try Kirsty Applebaum's gripping tale of forbidden friendship, The Middler . It's probably best to wait a year or so before trying the other books in the series, so in the meantime read Julia Green's new book The House Of Light and meet heroine Bonnie, who lives in a post-climate change totalitarian state with her grandfather and longs for freedom. Noughts and Crosses is not necessarily recommended reading for 10-year-olds, but the first in the series often gets picked up early. The front cover of The Middler, illustrated by Matt Saunders and aren't quite old enough for the rest of the series yet After Noughts and Crosses, Knife Edge, Checkmate, and Double Cross followed - and now, this August, we'll get Crossfire.īut after devouring Crossfire (and while looking forward to the upcoming Noughts & Crosses BBC series, featuring a guest appearance from Stormzy), what should a mega-fan read next? For those still at primary school who read the first Noughts and Crosses very young. Now it's hard to imagine the YA landscape without the epic love story of Sephy and Callum, Malorie's star-crossed lovers - her very own Romeo and Juliet.

The series is set in an alternative timeline in which Africans made Europeans their slaves slavery has been abolished, but the Crosses are very much in control. When Noughts and Crosses was first published in 2001 - the book that gave the whole series its name - it took the YA world by storm. Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crossesis an absolute sensation - but if you've read all the books in the series, what can you try next? What to Read After is here to help you out.

Noughts and crosses book series