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Zahrah the Windseeker by Nnedi Okorafor

My rating: 3 of 5 stars
A thirteen-year-old girl journeys into the forbidden greeny jungle to find a cure to save her best friend. Along the way she develops her magic and does some growing up.

It's a very simple story – girl marked by difference takes the first steps into adulthood – and younger than I usually like my young adult. But it's sweet and fun, and the world building is great (computers grown on trees! A dietary supplement for charisma!). And it does make me happy to remember there actually are young adult books with brown-skinned protagonists out there. Astonishing, I know.

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