Nneka Okoye

It is the year 1814 and Miss Maelys Mitchelmore finds her entry into the highest society of Bath hindered by an irritating curse. It begins innocuously enough, with her dress slowly unmaking itself over the course of an evening at the ball of the season, a scandal she only narrowly manages to escape.

However, as the curse progresses to more fatal proportions, she realises she must seek out urgent assistance, even if that means mixing with the most undesirable company-and there are few less desirable allies than the brooding Lady Georgiana Landrake-who may or may not have murdered her own father and brothers to inherit their fortune.

If one is to believe the gossip, she might be some kind of malign enchantress. Then again, a malign enchantress might be exactly what Miss Mitchelmore needs.

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. Soon to be a feature film with a major streamer! 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 caught up in an epic battle.... one that puts the future of all Solari at risk.

Solari - children with superpowers - have always been native to Nigeria, but Onyeka and her friends have been alerted to one hidden in England. Tasked with retrieving the young Solari, they successfully complete their mission, arriving safe and sound back at the Academy of the Sun with Tobi in tow.

Tobi's identity and superpower remain a mystery, until a breadcrumb trail leads Onyeka to the truth. But someone else has uncovered the secret, and unlike Onyeka, they don't have Tobi's best interests at heart. Can our superhero save the day once again?

Having uncovered head teacher Dr Doyinbo's hidden agenda behind the Academy of the Sun Onyeka and her friends are on the run. But they've got bigger problems to worry about - they desperately need to find a way to restore Niya's Ike superpower and they need to locate Onyeka's missing parents. When their last safe house is uncovered Onyeka turns to the only potential allies they have left; the Rogues a group of rebels that have been trying to expose Dr Doyinbo's lies for years. 

Joining forces will the two groups be able to defeat their shared nemesis or is there a new danger on the horizon for the Solari?

A superpowered World Book Day story in the action-packed ONYEKA series from bestselling author Tọlá Okogwu.

Twelve-year-old Onyeka is enrolled at the Academy of the Sun, a school for superheroes called Solari. When she's sent on a mission with her friends to investigate a series of freak weather incidents in a remote village, they aren't expecting to find a top secret Solari with extraordinary superpowers. But is this new Solari friend or foe? There's only one way for Onyeka to find out . . .