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Akata Witch Nnedi Okorafor

Akata Witch By Nnedi Okorafor

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor


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Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

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.

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!

Akata Witch Reviews

One of Time Magazine's 100 Best Fantasy and Young Adult Books of All Time!
A Nebula Award nominee

The book puts a unique, inclusive spin on the timeless tale of the misfit chosen to save the world.
-Time Magazine

Okorafor's novels tend to reflect both her West-African heritage and American experiences, but in this series she creates a stunningly original world of African magic that draws on Nigerian folk beliefs and rituals instead of relying on the predictable tropes of Western fantasy novels.
-Time Magazine

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

The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read! -Laurie Halse Anderson, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Speak

I always loved science fiction, but I didn't feel I was part of it-until I read first Octavia Butler, and now Nnedi Okorafor. -Whoopi Goldberg

Highly original stuff, episode after amazing episode, full of color, life, and death. Nnedi Okorafor's work is wonderful! -Diana Wynne Jones, award-winning author of The Chronicles of Chrestomanci

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

Okorafor's imagination is stunning. -The New York Times Book Review

A marvelous and uplifting read, heartwarming in its portrayal of true friendship, heartbreaking in its portrayal of headstrong youth and the perils of pride. -Cory Doctorow, award-winning author of Little Brother

Fresh, original, and smart. We need more writers like her. -Patrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind

Nnedi Okorafor is opening doors into strange and beautiful new worlds. Her heroes are beguiling, her magic firmly rooted in real places and real things. Rich, mysterious, and convincing, Akata Witch takes fantasy in a haunting new direction. -Jonathan Stroud, New York Times bestselling author of The Bartimaeus Trilogy

The voice of Nnedi Okorafor does not obey the rules of distance, time, or place. Hers is the voice that fuses matter and imagination. She shows us just how close we are to that alternate reality. -Tchidi Chikere, Nigerian award-winning film director and screenwriter

About Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedi Okorafor is a novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism for both children and adults. Born in the United States to Nigerian immigrant parents, Nnedi is known for weaving African culture into creative evocative settings and memorable characters. In a profile of Nnedi's work, the New York Times called Nnedi's imagination stunning. Nnedi has received the World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, and the Nebula Award, among others, for her novels. She holds a PhD in English and is a professor at SUNY Buffalo. She divides her time between Buffalo and the suburbs of Chicago, where she lives with her daughter. Learn more at nnedi.com or follow her on Twitter @nnedi.

Additional information

GOR011264370
9780670011964
0670011967
Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor
Used - Like New
Hardback
Penguin Putnam Inc
20110414
368
Short-listed for Locus Awards (Young Adult) 2012
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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