Ibi Zoboi

A portrait of the childhood of Octavia E. Butler, the shy, tall girl who grew up to become a celebrated science fiction writer.

Fifteen-year-old Marisol, a soucouyant newly settled in Brooklyn, longs to break free of her mother and their shape-shifting heritage, while seventeen-year-old Genevieve yearns for the mother she never knew. When a new nanny arrives at Genevieve's home, a family secret begins to bind the two girls together.

Amal, a Black teen artist and poet, is wrongfully convicted after a fight and holds onto his humanity through art.