{"product_id":"rick-riordan-presents-serwa-boatengs-guide-to-vampire-hunting-a-serwa-boateng-novel-book-1","title":"Rick Riordan Presents: Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting-A Serwa Boateng Novel Book 1","description":"Best-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.\n\nFor most kids, catching fireflies is a fun summer activity. For twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng, it's a matter of life and death.\n\nThat'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.\n\nSerwa 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.\n\nJust 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.\n\nAfter all, seventh grade is hard enough without adding vampires to the mix.\n\nEndorsed by Rick Riordan, author of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, soon to be a series on Disney+.\n\nComplete your middle grade action-adventure collection with these titles:\nRick Riordan Presents: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia\nRick Riordan Presents: The Storm Runner by J.C. Cervantes\nRick Riordan Presents: Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse\nRick Riordan Presents: Pahua and the Soul Stealer by Lori M. Lee\nPercy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1368066364\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: 4EKTGN003HPL_ns\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Brown, Roseanne A.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41505960788026,"sku":"4EKTGN003HPL_ns","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1368066364-0.jpg?v=1783226359","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/rick-riordan-presents-serwa-boatengs-guide-to-vampire-hunting-a-serwa-boateng-novel-book-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}