The novels in her Noughts & Crosses sequence have won several awards, including the Children's Book Award, and she has won many other awards for her books for the Random House list. Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. Note: This book was published in a different form as Forbidden Game by Puffin in 1994. There is an author’s note from Malorie Blackman with more information about sickle-cell anaemia, and the book is printed using dyslexia-friendly font and paper. This is a fast-paced adventure story with plenty of peril and Sam is an empathetic hero.
A heavy rainstorm brings flash floods and events quickly turn dangerous. The trip is a walking expedition in the Scottish mountains, but it goes badly wrong when the other boys in Sam’s group play a trick on the teachers and get their whole group lost in the woods. Finally he gets a chance to do something he’s longed to do for years – go on a school trip. Sam feels that his over-protective parents see him as someone who is either in hospital or just about to be there, and he hates it.
But his long-term illness (sickle-cell anaemia) means that he quickly runs out of energy and has frequent episodes of severe pain that put him in hospital. All Sam wants is to prove that he is as strong and active as the other boys in his class.
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