Akata Witch

ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE S 100 BEST FANTASY AND YOUNG ADULT BOOKS OF ALL TIME A young Nigerian girl discovers her extraordinary destiny in this heart-pounding tale of finding one s place in the world.

Jam-packed with mythological wonders. Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

There s more imagination on a page of Nnedi Okorafor s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics. Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning author of A Wizard of Earthsea

Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her features are West 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. And she has a lot of catching up to do.

Soon she s part of a quartet of magic students, studying the invisible and visible, learning to change reality. But just as she s finding her footing, Sunny and her friends are asked by the magical authorities to help track down a career criminal who knows magic too. Will their training be enough to help them against a threat whose powers greatly outnumber theirs