{"product_id":"rick-riordan-presents-serwa-boatengs-guide-to-vampire-hunting-a-serwa-boateng-novel-book-1-hardcover","title":"Rick Riordan Presents: Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting-A Serwa Boateng Novel Book 1 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoseanne A. Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest-selling author Rick Riordan presents best-selling YA author Roseanne A. Brown's middle grade debut about a pre-teen vampire slayer with a strong helping of Ghanaian folklore.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor most kids, catching fireflies is a fun summer activity. For twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng, it's a matter of life and death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThat'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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSerwa 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust as Serwa starts to get the hang of this whole \u003ci\u003enormal girl who doesn't punch vampires every day\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter all, seventh grade is hard enough without adding vampires to the mix.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEndorsed by Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, soon to be a series on Disney+.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComplete your middle grade action-adventure collection with these titles: \u003cbr\u003eRick Riordan Presents: \u003ci\u003e Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e by Kwame Mbalia\u003cbr\u003eRick Riordan Presents: \u003ci\u003e The Storm Runner\u003c\/i\u003e by J.C. Cervantes\u003cbr\u003eRick Riordan Presents: \u003ci\u003e Race to the Sun \u003c\/i\u003eby Rebecca Roanhorse\u003cbr\u003eRick Riordan Presents: \u003ci\u003e Pahua and the Soul Stealer\u003c\/i\u003e by Lori M. Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePercy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief \u003c\/i\u003eby Rick Riordan \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoseanne \"Rosie\" A. Brown was born in Kumasi, Ghana and immigrated to the wild jungles of central Maryland as a child. Writing was her first love, and she knew from a young age that she wanted to use the power of writing to connect the different cultures she called home. She worked as an assistant teacher, journalist, and editorial intern before writing her first two young adult novels, \u003ci\u003eA Song of Wraiths and Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e, an instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-seller, and \u003ci\u003eA Psalm of Storms and Silence\u003c\/i\u003e. This is her middle grade debut, and it will be followed by \u003ci\u003eSerwa Boateng's Guide to Witchcraft and Mayhem\u003c\/i\u003e. Rosie currently lives outside Washington, D.C., where she can usually be found explaining memes to her elderly relatives or thinking about Star Wars. She can neither confirm nor deny if she has ever been possessed by a vampire. 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