Serafina's Promise by Ann E. Burg
Juvenile Fiction2015 · 304 pages

Serafina's Promise

by Ann E. Burg
About this book

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?

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