Akata Witch
- ISBN-10
- 0142420913
- ISBN-13
- 9780142420911
- Category
- Young Adult Fiction
- Pages
- 349
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Nnedi Okorafor
Description
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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