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Rick Riordan Presents: Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting by Roseanne A. Brown

Rick Riordan Presents: Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting

Roseanne A. Brown

Disney Publishing Group · Paperback · August 15, 2023

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling YA author Roseanne A. Brown's vampire slayer adventure influenced by Ghanaian folklore.

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Who it’s for
Ghanaian folklore gives this school-set vampire adventure an eerie spark and a coming-of-age edge.
Themes
Ghanaian folklore, Family secrets, Identity
Pacing
Fast

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About this book

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling YA author Roseanne A. Brown's vampire slayer adventure influenced by Ghanaian folklore. For most kids, catching fireflies is a fun summer activity. For twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng, it's a matter of life and death. That's because Serwa, a Slayer, and knows that some fireflies are really adze, shapeshifting vampires from the forests of Southeastern Ghana.

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When an adze infiltrates her school, it’s up to her to whip some of her classmates into fighting shape before they all become firefly food. And when she uncovers a secret that upends everything she thought she knew about her family, Serwa will have to decide which side of herself--normal girl or Slayer--is the right one.

Folklore Meets Fangs

Ghanaian folklore gives this school-set vampire adventure an eerie spark and a coming-of-age edge.

Come here for

  • Shapeshifting vampires drawn from Ghanaian folklore
  • A young Slayer balancing school life and danger

Expect

  • Fast-moving supernatural trouble at school
  • A family secret that complicates Serwa’s sense of self

Where it sits

Paranormal69%
Monsters45%
African Myths & Legends41%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • African Myths & Legends
  • Friendship
  • Monsters
Authors
Roseanne A. Brown
Publisher
Disney Publishing Group
Published
August 15, 2023
Format
Paperback
Theme
Ghanaian folklore · Family secrets · Identity
Reading lane
African Myths & Legends