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May 2006, 432 pages
Paperback:
Apr 2007, 448 pages
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A coming-of-age story about courage, friendship, desire, and faith.
This first novel in the Noble Warriors sequence begins when sixteen-year-old Seeker's older brother is publicly humiliated and - with no explanation - exiled from the Nomana, a revered order of warrior monks. Seeker refuses to believe that his beloved older brother is capable of committing a betrayal that would warrant such severe consequences, so he sets off alone on a journey to rescue his brother and find out at last what really happened.
Along the way he meets two other young people who are on quests of their own, and in a shocking turn of events, the three are soon caught up in a harrowing and bloody race to save the Nomana - and themselves - from destruction.
An epic coming-of-age story about courage, friendship, desire, and faith, Seeker marks the beginning of a riveting new series.
Sunrise
Seeker woke earlier than usual, long before dawn, and lay in the
darkness thinking about the day ahead. It was high summer, with less
than a week to go before the longest day of the year. In school it was
the day of the monthly test.
And it was his sixteenth birthday.
Unable to sleep, he rose and dressed quietly so as not to wake his
parents, and went out into the silent street. By the light of the
stars, he made his way to the steps that zigzagged up the steep
hillside, and began to climb. As he did so he watched the eastern sky,
and saw there the first pale silver gleams on the horizon that heralded
the coming dawn.
He had decided to watch the sun rise.
At the top of the steps the path flattened out and led into the
stone-flagged Nom square. To his right rose the great dark mass of
the Nom, the castle-monastery that dominated the island; to his left,
the avenue of old ...
The storyline is familiar: Boy consigned to boring life seeks adventure, discovers that (despite the fact that his family never thought him up to much) he's actually the chosen one who's destined to save his world from imminent destruction, meets traveling companions (including capable and determined female) and sets off on quest. However, as we all know, it's not what you tell, it's the way you tell it, and William Nicholson tells a very good story, one that will keep the 12+ age group reading long after bedtime...continued
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William Nicholson lives in Sussex in the South of England with his wife,
Virginia, and their three children. He has written two books for adults,
The Society of Others (very good IMHO) and The Trial of True Love (not so
good), and The Wind Singer - a trilogy for children that received very
strong reviews and won two prestigious UK Awards (the Smarties Gold Award and
the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2001 - the former being a very popular chocolate
candy similar to M&Ms, the latter being a very popular long-running BBC program
for children).
He has also written many TV dramas, including Shadowlands (the life of CS
Lewis). His adaptation of Shadowlands for the stage won the Evening
Standard Best Play of 1990 and went on ...
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