Serafina's Promise

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?

Author: Ann E. Burg
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 07/28/2015
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780545535670
ISBN10: 0545535670
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Places | Caribbean & Latin America
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | General (see also headings under Family)
- Juvenile Fiction | Family | General (see also headings under Social Themes)

About the Author
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.