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Serafina's Promise

Serafina's Promise

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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?

ISBN-13: 9780545535670

Media Type: Paperback(Reprint)

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Publication Date: 07-28-2015

Pages: 304

Product Dimensions: 5.20(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.90(d)

Age Range: 8 - 12 Years

Ann Burg's debut novel, All the Broken Pieces, was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a Jefferson Cup award winner and an IRA Notable Book for a Global Society, among its many honors. All of her subsequent novels in verse have garnered multiple awards and starred reviews. Serafina's Promise was named an ALA Notable, a Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner, and an NAACP Image Award finalist. Unbound was the winner of the New-York Historical Society Children's History Book Prize, the Christopher Award, and an Arnold Adoff Poetry Honor. Flooded was a Bank Street College Claudia Lewis Award winner, a Bank Street College Best Children's Book (with outstanding merit), and a Junior Library Guild selection. Burg worked as an English teacher for ten years before becoming a full-time writer. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York, with her family. Visit her online at annburg.com.

Read an Excerpt

As the dark, cloudy waterflows into my basin,I wonder where Banza goeswhen he disappears.Sometimes we don’t see himfor weeks. I wonder what it’s liketo always be hungryand wander about every daylooking for food. Sometimes I’m hungry.Sometimes my bellyis so empty it grumbles,and a plate of riceor a black bananais just not enough. On those days,Papa sings louder,and Manman’s eyesare softer.Gogo takes my handand we dance awaythe rumbles. I wonder what hungeris like without a familyto fill the emptiness. I think about Baby Pierre.He never had a chanceto grow fat with our love.