# Noughts and Crosses

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Everything you need to know about the TV adaptation of Malorie Blackman's 'Noughts and Crosses'

Today it was announced that Stormzy has a role in the series.

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Mar 21st 2019, 7:13 PM

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You want to ban novels in schools that contain sex? Hello, 1960s Ireland

There has been controversy about the book Noughts & Crosses being on the Junior Cert curriculum. The description of passionate young love, later sex and (hang on to your seats) an abortion all speaks to things that young adults are likely to encounter in their lives, writes Aaron McKenna.

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Oct 24th 2015, 8:05 AM

# Noughts and Crosses

Parents say this book on Junior Cert curriculum is like 50 Shades of Grey

“It was like we both caught fire, spontaneous combustion, we were burning up together.”

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