Zahrah the Windseeker
Author: Nnedi Okorafor Category: Action and Adventure, Disabilities and Differences, Fairy Tales and Mythology, Fantasy and Enchantment, Friendship, Magic and the Supernatural, Middle School, Overcoming Fears, Royalty and Empires, Upper Elementary Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Language: English Reading Age: Middle School, Upper Elementary More DetailsAward-winning author Nnedi Okorafor’s speculative fiction novel Zahrah the Windseeker is an African cultural story about a young girl’s heroic journey.
Winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature
“A consistently compelling and provocative tale.Locus
In the Ooni Kingdom, children born dada—with vines growing in their hair—are rumored to have special powers. Zahrah Tsami doesn’t know anything about that. She feels normal. Others think she’s different—they fear her. Only Dari, her best friend, isn’t afraid of her.
But then something begins to happen—something that definitely marks Zahrah as different—and the only person she can tell is Dari. He pushes her to investigate, edging them both closer and closer to danger. Until Dari’s life is on the line. Only Zahrah can save him, but to do so she’ll have to face her worst fears alone, including the very thing that makes her different.
Zahrah the Windseeker
Written by Nnedi Okorafor
Source: Publisher (Houghton Mifflin)
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