Akata Witch
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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!
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Nnedi Okorafor. (2011). Akata Witch. Penguin Young Readers Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Nnedi Okorafor. 2011. Akata Witch. Penguin Young Readers Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Nnedi Okorafor, Akata Witch. Penguin Young Readers Group, 2011.
MLA Citation (style guide)Nnedi Okorafor. Akata Witch. Penguin Young Readers Group, 2011.
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Ursula K. Le Guin and John Green are Nnedi Okorafor fans. As soon as you start reading Akata Witch, you will be, too!
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Ursula K. Le Guin and John Green are Nnedi Okorafor fans. As soon as you start reading Akata Witch, you will be, too!
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