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Akata Witch
Nnedi Okorafor

Akata Witch

Viking (Apr 14, 2011)
9780670011964
| Hardcover
349 pages | 146 x 217 mm | English
LC Classification PZ7.O4157 .Ak 2011

Genre

  • Fantasy
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Teens
  • Young Adult

Subject

  • Fiction / Fantasy / General
  • History / Africa / General
  • Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic
  • Juvenile Fiction / Mysteries & Detective Stories
  • Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Africa

Plot

Read Nnedi Okorafor's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits. And then she discovers something amazing-she is a "free agent," with latent magical power. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too?