Title: Akata Witch

Title: Akata Witch Title Record # 1233573
Author: Nnedi Okorafor
Date: 2011-04-14
Type: NOVEL
Series: The Nsibidi Scripts
Series Number: 1
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: The character of Sunny, especially in the first half of this book, is based on the experiences of Sandra, a young albino, Ibo girl that the author spent a couple of weeks with. The Leopard Society and Nsibidi Scripts are factual.

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Translations

Year	Title
2016	What Sunny Saw in the Flames

Year	Language	Title
2018^ⓘTranslated by João Sette Câmara	Portuguese	Bruxa Akata
2020^ⓘTranslated by Anne Cohen Beucher	French	Akata Witch

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination	2011 Tiptree / Otherwise	Gender-bending SF
3	2012 Locus	Best Young Adult Book
Nomination	2012 Norton	Andre Norton Award
Nomination	2021 Imaginaire	Roman jeunesse étranger
Nomination	2021 Imaginaire	Traduction

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Akata Witch	2011-04-14	Nnedi Okorafor	Viking	978-0-670-01196-4	$17.99^?$: US dollar	349	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Jillian Tamaki
Akata Witch	2011-04-14	Nnedi Okorafor	Viking	978-1-101-51379-8	$11.99^?$: US dollar		ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.	novel
Akata Witch	2017-07-11	Nnedi Okorafor	Speak / Penguin Books (US)	978-0-14-242091-1	$10.99^?$: US dollar	349	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Greg Ruth
Akata Witch	2017-08-01	Nnedi Okorafor	Turtleback Books	978-0-606-40101-2	$22.10^?$: US dollar	384	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel
Akata Witch	2021-03-01	Nnedi Okorafor	Tantor and Blackstone Publishing	978-1-66523-509-9	$39.99^?$: US dollar		audio MP3 CD^?Compact disc with mp3-encoded audio tracks	novel
Akata Witch	2021-03-01	Nnedi Okorafor	Tantor and Blackstone Publishing	978-1-66523-508-2	$39.99^?$: US dollar		audio CD^?Compact disc with standard audio tracks	novel
Akata Witch	date unknown	Nnedi Okorafor	Viking	978-0-670-01196-4	$17.99^?$: US dollar	349	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Jillian Tamaki
Akata Witch	date unknown	Nnedi Okorafor	Viking / Penguin	978-0-670-01196-4	$17.99^?$: US dollar	349	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	novel	Jillian Tamaki
Akata Witch	date unknown	Nnedi Okorafor	Speak / Penguin Books (US)	978-0-14-242091-1	$10.99^?$: US dollar	[15]+ 369	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel	Greg Ruth

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Reviews

Review by Gary K. Wolfe (2011) in Locus, #601 February 2011
Review by Gary Robe (2018) in Tightbeam, #283