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Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780399187384)
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Ibi Zoboi
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xA 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.
Author: Ibi Zoboi
ISBN-10: 0399187383
ISBN-13: 9780399187384
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 01/25/2022
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 521822 / Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Honor Book
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/29/2021
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2022
Booklist 02/01/2022 pg. 48
Shelf Awareness 02/08/2022
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2022
School Library Journal 03/01/2022 pg. 126
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2022
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2022 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style
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.
Author: Ibi Zoboi
ISBN-10: 0399187383
ISBN-13: 9780399187384
Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers
Language: English
Published: 01/25/2022
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 521822 / Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler
Award: Coretta Scott King Award - Honor Book
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/29/2021
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 01/01/2022
Booklist 02/01/2022 pg. 48
Shelf Awareness 02/08/2022
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2022
School Library Journal 03/01/2022 pg. 126
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2022
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2022 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style
By Ibi Zoboi
xIbi Zoboi was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and holds an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her YA novel American Street was a National Book Award finalist and and her debut middle grade novel, My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich, was a New York Times bestseller. She is the author of Pride, a contemporary YA remix of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and editor of the anthology, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America. Her most recent bestseller, Punching the Air, is a YA novel in verse, co-authored by prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five. Her debut picture book, The People Remember, earned a Coretta Scott King Honor. Raised in New York City, Ibi now lives in New Jersey with her husband and their three children.
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