Star child : a biographical constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
(2022)
By:
Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Y/BIOGRAPHY/813.54/BUTLER,O
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Dutton Children's Books, 2022
©2022
©2022
DESCRIPTION
112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780399187384, 0399187383 :, 0399187383, 9780399187384
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Winner of the 2023 Coretta Scott King Honor Award
"From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood that shaped her into the groundbreaking science-fiction storyteller whose novels continue to challenge and delight readers fifteen years after her death"--
Ages 10+
Grades 7-9