Akata Witch [Hardcover]

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 readingAkata Witch, you will be, too! 

Raves for Nnedi Okorafor's writing: 

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, #1New York Timesbestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

Okorafor's imagination is stunning.  —The New York Timl£3