Serafina's Promise

NAACP Image Award winner and ALA Notable, this luminous, celebrated novel in verse is now in paperback. Serafina made a secret promise to go to school and learn to read so she can become a doctor with her best friend, Julie Marie. But following her dream isn't easy- endless chores, little money and stomach-rumbling hunger all 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
• • Publication Date: Jul 28, 2015
• • Number of Pages: 304 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 0545535670
• • ISBN-13: 9780545535670