Nnedi Okorafor
1) Ikenga
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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In southeastern Nigeria, twelve-year-old Mnamdi is determined to avenge his police chief father, who was murdered while triyng to rid the town of criminals, but Nnamdi feels powerless until he receives a magical object which gives him superpowers.
2) Akata witch
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Akata series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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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.
3) LaGuardia
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""On a planet Earth bursting with integrated extraterrestrial life, pregnant doctor Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka is fleeing Nigeria under mysterious conditions. Her fianc♭ doesn't know she's left, and she's smuggling an illegal, sentient plant into NYC. There, she'll be thrown into a vibrant immigrant community of humans and aliens, fighting for social justice and facing her past and her unexpected future."" --Amazon.com.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From here on in she would be known as Sankofa--a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past. Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks--alone, except for her fox companion--searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she was yet unchanged; searching for answers. But is there...
5) Noor
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DAW book collectors volume no. 1898
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When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.
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Series
Desert magician's duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In West Africa in 2070, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer, and upon finding her, she also discovers a greater purpose to her life and to the mystical powers she possesses.
7) Lagoon
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2015.
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"A biologist, a famous rapper, and a rogue soldier become the honor guard and interpreter of humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador"--
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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What would you do if you woke up one night to find the shadow of a giant chicken passing your bedroom door? Go and investigate, of course! When Anyaugo follows a giant chicken into her kitchen one warm night in Nigeria, she embarks on a fun-filled adventure where nothing is quite as it seems. Is the mischievous giant chicken a friend or a foe? More importantly, will Anyaugo be able to save the food for the New Yam Festival the next day?
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Collects Shuri #1-5. The world fell in love with her in Marvel's Black Panther. Now, T'Challa's techno-genius sister launches her own adventures — written by best-selling Afrofuturist author Nnedi Okorafor and drawn by Eisner Award-nominated artist Leonardo Romero! T'Challa has disappeared, and everyone is looking at the next in line for the throne. Wakanda expects Shuri to take on the mantle of Black Panther once more and lead their great nation...
10) Wakanda Forever
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Collects Amazing Spider-Man: Wakanda Forever, X-Men: Wakanda Forever, Avengers: Wakanda Forever And Black Panther Annual #1. The Dora Milaje are venturing out of Wakanda — and adventuring across the Marvel Universe! It's Wakanda's best warriors — Okoye, Ayo and Aneka — on a globe-trotting mission to protect the realm at any cost. When they discover a threat from their homeland causing trouble in New York, they'll leap into action — with or...
11) Akata warrior
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Akata series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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Matured a little by the experience with Ekwensu, Sunny and her friends continue their studies in the Leopard Society, which feels anticlimactic. But the lord of the lakes isn't done with Sunny, and she has to team up with both Leopards and Lambs to travel to the mythical town of Osisi for a final showdown which could destroy humanity.
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Shuri (2019) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
The world fell in love with her in the movie. Now, the Black Panther's techno-genius sister launches her own adventures - written by best-selling Afrofuturist author Nnedi Okorafor and drawn by Eisner-nominated artist Leonardo Romero! The Black Panther has disappeared, lost on a mission in space. And in his absence, everyone's looking at the next in line for the throne. But Shuri is happiest in a lab, surrounded by gadgets of her own creation. She'd...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"T'Challa has disappeared, and Wakanda expects Shuri to lead their great nation in his absence! But she's happiest in a lab surrounded by her inventions. She'd rather be testing gauntlets than throwing them down! So it's time for Shuri to rescue her brother yet again - with a little help from Storm, Rocket Raccoon and Groot! But what happens when her outer-space adventure puts Africa at risk from an energy-sapping alien threat? Then, Shuri heads to...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Binti ©2015 -- Binti: Home ©2017 -- Binti: the night masquerade ©2018 -- Binti: Sacred fire ©2019. Includes a brand-new Binti story! Collected for the first time in an omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one extraordinary girl's journey from her home to distant Oomza University. In her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella, Nnedi Okorafor introduced us to Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime:...
15) Akata woman
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Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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With the help of her friends, fifteen-year-old Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object and return it to the spider deity Udide, but defeating the guardians of Udide's ghazal will put all of Sunny's hard lessons and abilities to the test.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that is suddenly transformed into the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder - and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it. This searing graphic-novel...
17) After the rain
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"After the Rain is an adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor’s short story, “On the Road.” The adaptation, written by John Jennings and illustrated by David Brame, begins in Nigeria during a powerful and unexpected storm. While visiting her grandmother, a young Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at the door and is horrified by what she sees—a young boy with a severe head wound is standing on the doorstep. When he touches Chioma, his...
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Collects Shuri #6-10. Shuri faces her destiny! With T'Challa gone and Wakanda in peril, the Black Panther is needed — and Shuri must step up to fill the void. But she's about to face a threat unlike any her home has seen before! Shuri heads to America to investigate a lead, but she's not the only hero on the case. With New York City and New Jersey in danger as well, there's no way Miles "Spider-Man" Morales and Kamala "Ms. Marvel" Khan are sitting...
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Collects Shuri (2018) #1-10. The Black Panther's techno-genius sister stars in her own incredible adventures! T'Challa has disappeared, and Wakanda expects Shuri to lead their great nation in his absence! But she's happiest in a lab surrounded by her inventions. She'd rather be testing gauntlets than throwing them down! So it's time for Shuri to rescue her brother yet again — with a little help from Storm, Rocket Raccoon and Groot! But what happens...