Books with author N Nolan

Powerful fiction from National Book Award-winning author Han Nolan. Fifteen-year-old Jason has fallen on bad times--his mother has died and his father has succumbed to mental illness. As he tries to hold his crazy father and their crumbling home together, Jason relies on a host of imaginary friends for guidance. Both heartbreaking and funny, "Crazy "provides more of the intense and compelling characters Han Nolan is praised for.

Powerful fiction by National Book Award-winning author Han Nolan. It s 1963, and fourteen-year-old Esther Young has struck up a friendship with a black teen accused of murdering a white man in Alabama. King-Roy Johnson shows up on Esther s doorstep that summer feeling betrayed by the nonviolent teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. Sent north by his mother to escape a lynch mob, he meets a follower of Malcolm X s who uses radical teachings about black revolution to fuel King-Roy s anger and frustration. But with each other s help, both Esther and King-Roy learn the true nature of integrity and find the power to stand up for what is right."

Three teenagers start at the mysterious Forestmoore Academy, unaware of its brutal past and magical purpose. But as friendships and families are brought together and torn apart, an inter-dimensional war is also beginning. As the teenagers come to terms with all that is revealed, the eternal question of good versus evil looms in deciding whether to fight for the White, or for the Dark... The first in an epic trilogy, "White Swan" will delight young fans of the mainstream works of Trudi Canavan, Philip Pullman, and Alison Croggon.

Fifteen-year-old Jason has fallen upon bad times—his mother has died and his father has succumbed to mental illness. As he tries to hold his crazy father and their crumbling home together, Jason relies on a host of imaginary friends for guidance as he stumbles along trying not to draw attention to his father’s deteriorating condition. Both heartbreaking and funny, CRAZY lives up to the intense and compelling characters Han Nolan is praised for. As Jason himself teeters on the edge of insanity, Nolan uncovers the clever coping system he develops for himself and throws him a lifeline in the guise of friendship.

Powerful fiction by National Book Award-winning author Han Nolan. It’s 1963, and fourteen-year-old Esther Young has struck up a friendship with a black teen accused of murdering a white man in Alabama. King-Roy Johnson shows up on Esther’s doorstep that summer feeling betrayed by the nonviolent teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. Sent north by his mother to escape a lynch mob, he meets a follower of Malcolm X’s who uses radical teachings about black revolution to fuel King-Roy’s anger and frustration. But with each other’s help, both Esther and King-Roy learn the true nature of integrity and find the power to stand up for what is right.

As sixteen-year-old Hilary, a neo-Nazi, lies wounded in a Jewish hospital, she slips into a coma and begins to relive the harrowing memories of Chana-a Jewish girl whose family was brutalized in the wartime ghettos and Nazi death camps of Poland. At the same time, Hilary begins to come to terms with difficult memories of her own. When she wakes, she finally finds herself on the path to recovery from a lifetime of rage and resentment. “Chana’s story . . . is brilliantly rendered.”-Booklist

Hilary hates Jews. As part of a neo-Nazi gang in her town, she's finally found a sense of belonging. But when she's critically injured in an accident, everything changes.Somehow, in her mind, she has become Chana, a Jewish girl fighting for her own life in the ghettos and concentration camps of World War II.Han Nolan offers powerful insight into one young woman's survival through the Holocaust and another's journey out of hatred and self-loathing.Reader's guide and an interview with the author included.