William Nicholson
1) Jango
Author
Series
Noble warriors volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seeker, the Wildman, and Morning Star discover that the mysterious warrior sect they had been so desperate to join is not quite what it appears from the outside.
2) Amherst
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alice Dickinson is a young advertising executive who works in London and dreams of becoming a screenwriter. She decides to take some time off work to research her idea for a screenplay: the true story of a scandalous adulterous love affair that took place in Amherst, Massachusetts, in the 1880s. The lovers were a young faculty wife at Amherst College, Mabel Loomis Todd, and the college's treasurer, Austin Dickinson. Austin, twenty-four years Mabel's...
3) Noman
Author
Series
Noble warriors volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seeker, who is obsessed with his increasingly perilous quest to kill the last of the Old Ones, finds that his mission has placed him at odds with a new leader who preaches peace and joy.
4) Motherland
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From an Academy Award—nominated screenwriter, an epic novel of love and loss and the long shadows war leaves behind.
Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer with Combined Ops. She falls instantly in love with Ed, who falls in love with her. So does Larry. Both men go off to war, and Ed wins the highest military honor for his bravery. But sometimes heroes don't make...
5) Seeker
Author
Series
Noble warriors volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having been rejected by the Nomana--the revered warrior-monk order they long to join--sixteen-year-olds Seeker and Morning Star, along with a curious pirate named Wildman, attempt to prove that they are worthy of joining the community, after all.
6) Rich and Mad
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-olds Maddy Fisher and Rich Ross yearn for love, and after their first attempts at relationships go awry, they find one another and form a deep bond that can only be expressed one way.
8) Shadowlands
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
William Nicholson highlights the life of famed author C.S. Lewis. When Lewis meets an American fan named Joy, he quickly falls in love and marries her. Unfortunately, Joy dies from cancer and Lewis finds himself struggling with grief and emotional pain.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Belinda discovers her husband is having an affair, she's furious, hurt, and bent on leveling the score. But Belinda isn't the only one in her affluent suburban neighborhood suffering the indignities and disappointments of middle age. Instead of resting comfortably in the glow of earlier good decisions, she and her neighbors have just as much angst as they did in their twenties.
One of Belinda's friends fears her own husband is unfaithful, too....
Author
Language
English
Description
He has nowhere to go. So he goes there. The narrator of The Society of Others is an alienated young man who sees no meaning in life. He doesn't even see the point of getting out of bed in the morning. To get his family off his back, he embarks on an aimless hitchhiking adventure around Europe. But his journey soon turns into an orgy of violence...
Author
Series
Wind on fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
After Kestrel Hath rebels against the stifling rules of Amaranth society and is forced to flee, she, along with her twin brother and a tagalong classmate, follow an ancient map in quest of the legendary silver voice of the wind singer, in an attempt to heal Amaranth and its people.
12) Seeker bk. 1
Author
Series
Noble warriors volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Having been rejected by the Nomana--the revered warrior-monk order they long to join--Seeker and Morning Star attempt to prove that they are worthy of joining the community.
Author
Series
Noble warriors volume 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Having been rejected by the Nomana--the revered warrior-monk order they long to join--sixteen-year-olds Seeker and Morning Star, along with a curious pirate named Wildman, attempt to prove that they are worthy of joining the community, after all.
15) Firesong
Author
Series
The Wind on Fire Trilogy volume Bk. 3
Pub. Date
2003.
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 820L
Language
English
Description
"A sensitive story of a little boy'slove for his toy rabbit and how the rabbit wanted to be real. The Skin Horse tells the rabbit, 'When a child loves you for a long, long time not just to play with, but REALLY loves you become Real.'"
17) Hope Gap
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Grace lives an idyllic life until her 29-year marriage to Edward abruptly ends, leaving their only son to pick up the pieces. As life unravels, Grace discovers it's never too late to be happy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Bowman uses his newly-discovered powers to join with his twin sister Kestrel in an attempt to liberate their people from the "beautiful but cruel" civilization which has enslaved them.
20) Hope Gap
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Grace (Annette Bening) lives an idyllic life until her 29-year marriage to Edward (Bill Nighy) abruptly ends, leaving their only son (Josh O’Conner) to pick up the pieces. As life unravels, Grace discovers it's never too late to be happy.