**Two sisters are torn apart by war and must fight their way back to each other in a futuristic,_Black Panther_ βinspired Nigeria.** The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky. In a wa
War Girls
β Scribed by Tochi Onyebuchi
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group 2019
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 282 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0451481674
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β¦ Synopsis
Two sisters are torn apart by war and must fight their way back to each other in a futuristic, Black Panther-inspired Nigeria.
The year is 2167 and the place is a futuristic, war-torn Nigeria. High-speed, souped up maglevs fly across the country, and battles are fought with deadly, flying robots.
Sixteen-year-old Onyii has created a technologically advanced camp that serves as a refuge for former child soldiers and girls orphaned by the fighting and political unrest.
Onyii is protective of all the girls, but she will do anything to keep her little sister, Ify, safe. Ify is brilliant and dreams of becoming a pilot and escaping to the Space Colonies, far from the war. Onyii worries that Ify's ambition will one day get her into trouble.
When one of Ify's tech projects inadvertently sends a signal to enemy soldiers, Onyii's concerns tragically come true. A bomb is dropped. The camp is decimated. And Onyii and Ify are ripped apart, forced onto opposite sides of the...
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