At Octavia E. Butler Magnet’s library, students can see her picture in the 1961 yearbook, her eighth grade promotion certificate, assignments, even report cards from her time at the school.

Butler’s middle school life: At Octavia E. Butler Magnet’s library, students can see her picture in the 1961 yearbook, her eighth grade promotion certificate, assignments, ...

At Octavia E. Butler Magnet, 16% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 24% scored at or above that level for reading. The school’s minority student enrollment is 93%.

Octavia E. Butler published “Parable of the Sower” in 1993, when she was 46 and I was 12. ... with a middle school named after her and a new bookstore too — began as a daughter of Pasadena.

In Pasadena, the middle school she attended was renamed Octavia E. Butler Magnet in 2022. Octavia's Bookshelf, a bookstore named in her honor, opened in her hometown this year.

Sixteen years after her death, the writer Octavia Butler is experiencing a renaissance. Butler, seen here on a mural at a middle school that bears her name, is celebrated for novels that grappled ...

Via BrainyQuote, here's a selection of Octavia E. Butler quotes: At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and ...