Serafina's Promise

By Ann E. Burg

Book Overview

NAACP Image Award winner and ALA Notable, this luminous, celebrated novel in verse is now in paperback.

Serafina made a secret promiseto go to school and learn to readso she can become a doctorwith her best friend, Julie Marie.But following her dream isn't easy-endless chores, little moneyand stomach-rumbling hungerall test her resolve.When an earthquake hits and separates Serafina from friends and family, she encounters her biggest test of all.Serafina made a secret promise.Will she survive to keep it?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545535670
• ISBN13: 9780545535670
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7