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Cora
Dec 30, 2012 rated it really liked it
Shelves: lost-in-fire, fantasy, library, young-adult, africa, nigeria, coming-of-age, magic, 1st-in-series, african-american-author
This young adult novel is set in contemporary Nigeria. Sunny was born in America to Nigerian parents. The family moved back to Nigeria when she was 9. She is an albino that has trouble fitting in at school. On day she sees something strange and frightening in the flame of a candle. That same day she makes some new friends, a boy in school named Orlu and his friend Chichi. Soon her friends help her discover that she is a Leopard person (someone with magical abilities) like them. Will learning to ...more
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Susan
Nov 01, 2010 rated it liked it
Shelves: fiction, young-adult, fantasy, juvenile, series
Okorafor is such a versatile writer. I enjoyed this, but it has an entirely different feel from the other book of hers I've read, Who Fears Death. This sits right between juvenile and young adult. It would be great for middle school kids or for more mature elementary school kids. (There's a bit of violence against young children which might be too much for younger kids to handle.)

The protagonist, Sunny, is an American-born Nigerian teenager now living in Nigeria who discovers she has magical pow ...more
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