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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! From the Hardcover edition.

Text Difficulty 4 - Text Difficulty 6

MG+/Upper middle grades (6th-12th)

590 Lexile.

4.2 ATOS Level

Electronic reproduction. New York : Viking Books for Young Readers, 2011. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1947 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).

Young Adult Fiction.

Fantasy.

Mystery.

Young Adult Literature.

Electronic books.

9781101513798 (electronic bk)

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Philip K. Dick Award finalist Praise for Vandana Singh: "A most promising and original young writer."—Ursula K. Le Guin "Lovely! What a pleasure this book is . . . full of warmth, compassion, affection, high comedy and low."—Molly Gloss, author of The Hearts of Horses "Vandana Singh's radiant protagonist is a planet unto herself."—Village Voice "Sweeping starscapes and daring cosmology that make Singh a worthy heir to Cordwainer Smith and Arthur C. Clarke."—Chris Moriarty, Fantasy & Science Fiction "I'm looking forward to the collection . . . everything I've read has impressed me—the past and future visions in 'Delhi', the intensity of 'Thirst', the feeling of escape at the end of 'The Tetrahedron'..." —Niall Harrison, Vector (British Science Fiction Association) "...the first writer of Indian origin to make a serious mark in the SF world ... she writes with such a beguiling touch of the strange." —Nilanjana Roy, Business Standard In her first North American collection, Vandana Singh's deep humanism interplays with her scientific background in stories that explore and celebrate this world and others and characters who are trying to make sense of the people they meet, what they see, and the challenges they face. An eleventh century poet wakes to find he is as an artificially intelligent companion on a starship. A woman of no account has the ability to look into the past. In "Requiem," a major new novella, a woman goes to Alaska to try and make sense of her aunt's disappearance. Singh's stories have been performed on BBC radio, been finalists for the British SF Association award, selected for the Tiptree award honor list, and oft reprinted in Best of the Year anthologies. Her dives deep into the vast strangeness of the universe without and within and with her unblinking clear vision she explores the ways we move through space and time: together, yet always apart.

Electronic reproduction. LaVergne : Small Beer Press, 2018. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2974 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).

Fiction.

Science Fiction.

Short Stories.

Electronic books.

9781618731425 (electronic bk)

FIC BES

xxi, 372 pages ; 22 cm.

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The best American series

Best American series.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-369).

ǂt The era / ǂr Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah -- ǂt Natural light / ǂr Kathleen Alcott -- ǂt The great interruption : the story of a famous story off Old Port William and how it ceased to be told (1935-1978) / ǂr Wendell Berry -- ǂt No more than a bubble / ǂr Jamel Brinkley -- ǂt The third tower / ǂr Deborah Eisenberg -- ǂt Hellion / ǂr Julia Elliott -- ǂt Bronze / ǂr Jeffrey Eugenides -- ǂt Protozoa / ǂr Ella Martinsen Gorham -- ǂt Seeing Ershadi / ǂr Nicole Krauss -- ǂt Pity and shame / ǂr Ursula K. Le Guin -- ǂt Anyone can do it / ǂr Manuel Muñoz -- ǂt The plan / ǂr Sigrid Nunez -- ǂt Letter of apology / ǂr Maria Reva -- ǂt Black Corfu / ǂr Karen Russell -- ǂt Audition / ǂr Saïd Sayrafiezadeh -- ǂt Natural disasters / ǂr Alexis Schaitkin -- ǂt Our day of grace / ǂr Jim Shepard -- ǂt Wrong object / ǂr Mona Simpson -- ǂt They told us not to say this / ǂr Jenn Alandy Trahan -- ǂt Omakase / ǂr Weike Wang.

Short stories, American.

American fiction -- 21st century.

Doerr, Anthony, 1973- editor.

Pitlor, Heidi, editor.

9781328465825