Serafina has a secret desire to become a doctor. Ever since the day she met Antoinette Solaine, the doctor who tried to help her baby brother, Serafina has known she wanted to become a doctor, too. But you have to go to school to become a doctor, and Serafina's life is full of chores. Every day she takes the bucket to stream where she collects water for the family's needs. Then she sweeps the dirt floor of their home, helps wash the clothes, and then helps Manman and Gogo prepare the rice for dinner. Even if there were other children to help with the chores, Serafina knows there is no money for school.
But Serafina will do whatever it takes to go to school so she can help the people of Haiti one day just like Antoinette Solaine. Her dream will have to overcome more than crippling poverty. Serafina's family will face illness, hunger, floods, and eventually the earthquake that destroys most of the island. Life only gets harder for Serafina and the people of Haiti, and she will see the truth of Manman's words, "The only unbreakable home is one made with love."
I LOVE
Ann E. Burg's newest verse novel. It is beautiful story about dreams and love in the face of extreme poverty and devastation.
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