Overview
Affectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world.A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Century
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 in. 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?
Ursula K. Le Guin and John Green are Nnedi Okorafor fans. As soon as you start reading Akata Witch, you will be, too!
The book, Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts) [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780670011964 in Hardcover by Nnedi Okorafor may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
04/14/2011
ISBN-10:
0670011967
ISBN-13:
9780670011964
Pages:
368
Publisher:
Penguin Young Readers Group
