384 pages | Trade Paperback

World Fantasy Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor weaves together a story of magic, mystery, and finding ones place in the worldfor fans of Ursula Le Guin and Diana Wynne Jones.

Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but shes albino. Shes a terrific athlete, but cant go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits. And then she discovers something amazing-she is a free agent, with latent magical power. Soon shes 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?