Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun: Exclusive Edition (Paperback)

Shortlisted for The British Book Awards 2023 Children's Fiction Book of the Year

Waterstones Exclusive Edition with sprayed edges

A Standard Edition is available here

Waterstones Children's Book of the Month for June 2022

Longlisted for The Jhalak Children's & Young Adults Prize 2023

Black Panther meets Percy Jackson in this action-packed and empowering middle-grade superhero series about a British-Nigerian girl who learns that her Afro hair has psychokinetic powers.

I close my eyes, trying to push the power bubbling in me back down... Hairbands snap as my hair shoots out like superfine arrows, tearing through everything in its path.

Onyeka has a lot of hair - the kind that makes strangers stop in the street. She's always felt insecure about her vibrant curls, until she makes an important discovery: she can control her hair with her mind!

Her mother quickly whisks her off to the Academy of the Sun, a school in Nigeria where Solari - children with superpowers - are trained. But Onyeka and her new friends at the Academy soon have to put their powers to the test as they find themselves embroiled in a momentous battle between truth and lies...