Akata witch
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer.
| Main Author: | Okorafor, Nnedi. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Viking,
2011.
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| Series: |
Akata witch ;
1. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three similarly gifted friends use to catch a serial killer. |
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| Item Description: |
"A Junior Library Guild selection."--Jacket flap. |
| Physical Description: |
349 pages ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780670011964 0670011967 |
| Author Notes: |
Her awards include a 2001 Hurston-Wright literary award for her story Amphibious Green, The Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa for Zahrah the Windseeker, the Carl Brandon Parallax Award for The Shadow Speaker, the 2007-08 winner of the Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa for Long Juju Man, the 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Who Fears Death, and her science fiction novella Binti won the 2016 Nebula Award (Best Novella) and the 2016 Hugo Awards for Best Novella. (Bowker Author Biography) |