A Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book
A Walter Dean Myers Honor Book
From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award
finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary
Octavia Butler, author of Parable of the Sower and Kindred.
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
experienced 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.
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