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Formato
eBook
Pagine
352
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
Apr 1, 2011
Editore
Viking Children's
ISBN-10
1101513799
ISBN-13
9781101513798
Descrizione
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!
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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Mistero
Fantasy
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The concept is so cool but I just didn't care for the story as much. Still undecided about whether I will read the next book because I had to force myself through 80% of the boring parts of the book to get to the interesting 20%. I understand why the characters are ages 12-14 as it makes sense for the "discovery of magical powers" storyline but the rest of the story would make so much sense if the characters were older. If there's a time jump for the rest of the books I might consider them
June 9th 2022