Serwa Boateng's guide to vampire hunting / by Roseanne A. Brown.
Material type: TextSeries: Brown, Roseanne A. Serwa Boateng ; 1.Publisher: Los Angeles ; New York : Disney/Hyperion, 2022Edition: First editionDescription: [viii], 386 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781368066365
- 1368066364
- 9781368066389
- 1368066380
- At head of title: Rick Riordan presents
- Guide to vampire hunting [Portion of title]
- Vampires -- Juvenile fiction
- Magic -- Juvenile fiction
- Mythology, African -- Juvenile fiction
- Shapeshifting -- Juvenile fiction
- Ghanaians -- United States -- Juvenile fiction
- Good and evil -- Juvenile fiction
- Middle schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Middle school students -- Juvenile fiction
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | BROWN ROSEANNE | 1 | Available | 33111011008360 | ||||
Children's Book | Main Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | BROWN ROSEANNE | 1 | Available | 33111010894380 | ||||
Children's Book | Northport Library | Children's Science Fiction/Fantasy | BROWN ROSEANNE | 1 | Available | 33111009448982 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 knows that some fireflies are really adze, shapeshifting vampires from the forests of Southeastern Ghana. Adze prey on the blood of innocents, possessing their minds and turning them into hulking monsters, and for generations, slayers like Serwa and her parents have protected an unknowing public from their threats.
Serwa is the best adze slayer her age, and she knew how to use a crossbow before she could even ride a bike. But when an obayifo (witch) destroys her childhood home while searching for a drum, do Serwa's parents take her with them on their quest to defeat her? No. Instead, they dump Serwa with her hippie aunt and cryptic-obsessed cousin in the middle of Nowheresville, Maryland "for her own safety." Now, instead of crossbows and battle armor, she's dealing with mean girls and algebra, and for the first time in her life she doesn't have to carry a staff everywhere she goes, which is . . . kind of nice, actually.
Just as Serwa starts to get the hang of this whole normal girl who doesn't punch vampires every day thing, an adze infiltrates her school. It's up to her to whip some of her classmates into monster-fighting shape before all of them become firefly food. And when she uncovers a secret that upends everything she thought she knew about her family's role in the slayer vs. adze war, Serwa will have to decide which side of herself--normal girl or slayer--is the right one.
After all, seventh grade is hard enough without adding vampires to the mix.
"Rick Riordan presents"
Ages 10-14. Disney/Hyperion.
Grades 7-9. Disney/Hyperion.
After her home is attacked by shapeshifting vampires, twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng is sent to live with her aunt and cousin in Maryland, but the aspiring vampire hunter discovers that middle school is harder than it appears on television, especially when she has to avoid detention and turn her classmates into warriors before they become vampire food.