Most of all, it is about hope, and its power to prevail over any adversity. A luminous novel in verse from the author of the Jefferson Cup award winner All the Broken Pieces. It is about friendship, family, time-old tensions between tradition and ambition, and a colourful and distinctive culture (Haitian Creole) that is little written about in children's literature. It is about a young girl's passion and struggle to rise up from extreme poverty. This tender, transcendent novel in verse is about much more than a terrible natural disaster. And then the devastating earthquakehits, and Serafina discovers that she must find understanding in her own heart. Why does Maman only care about work? Doesn't she know that education is the road to freedom? If only she understood Serafina better. Ask the students how Serafina changes throughout the story, including what influences these changes, and drawing a character map of Serafina’s ongoing emotions and. Ask the students what the impact is of the author’s choosing to write the novel in verse. Serafina is a young girl in Haiti who dreams, along with her best friend, of becoming a doctor one day. But what Serafina wants most of all is to go to school like her friend Nadia, and to become a doctor likeAntoinette Solaine, who tried to save her baby brother, Pierre. Ask the students how Serafina’s home life and her country affect her and her dreams. In a rural village outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Serafina works hard to help her family as they await the arrival of the new baby. A luminous novel in verse from the author of the Jefferson Cup award winner of All the Broken Pieces
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