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?
The last time I’ve loved a similar book series so much was Percy Jackson, and that was almost 10 years ago. Akata Witch is well-written, funny and dark when needed. Action scenes are scarce, and well-written; things focus on tradition and on carefully-crafted actions, which I love.