Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler

"Anyone can write a biography. It takes a clever pen to couple a life story with storytelling in free verse. Ibi Zoboi, who fangirled Octavia Butler early in her own writing career, now pays homage to the woman who broke barriers left, right and center. How did Butler – a Black girl labeled “slow” in school – become one of history’s preeminent science fiction writers? Zoboi shows us the shy child spurred on to do great things by devouring science fiction voraciously, knowing she could do better. As Butler herself said, she was “an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.” (For ages 10 to 13)"