Akata Witch is about a Nigerian girl named Sunny. Sunny never was normal. Shes albino, so she looks like a foreigner, truthfully is Nigerian, sounds slightly American, and feels like a complete freak. Her classmates call her Akata, a vicious word designed to hit her where it hurts. When she makes some new friends, however, a new world is opened up to her; a world of juju, or tribal magic. Normal becomes a completely relative term. She teams up with 3 other kids like her, Sasha, Chichi, Orlu, and learns about the universe of the Leopard People, the juju users.
This book is a non-fiction documentary of the life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis after losing her second husband. Jackie was accused of being hard-hearted, as she wasn't with her second husband when he died, but this book informs you that she experienced hardships trying to get over her grief. When a friend suggested that she try to be an editor, Jackie was a bit doubtful. After all, her late husband Ari Onassis had stated imperiously to her, "A Greek wife does not work." But she decided to give it a try.
Threads and Flames was a book about a girl named Raisa, who had been hunted by disease in her hometown, or Shetl. Raisa arrives in America with a cousin named Brina and 2 friends, Zusa and Luciana, in tow to find that her sister is gone. She scouts the whole neighborhood for a place to board, and eventually runs into Gavrel, a boy who takes her to his home. His mom, Mrs. Kamenski, welcomes Raisa and 5- year-old Brina into her home. When Raisa finds a job at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory and is convinced by Gavrel to follow her dreams and learn English, life settles into a routine.
