<div>NAACP Image Award winner and ALA Notable, this luminous, celebrated novel in verse is now in paperback.<br><br>Serafina made a secret promise<br>to go to school and learn to read<br>so she can become a doctor<br>with her best friend, Julie Marie.<br><br>But following her dream isn't easy-<br>endless chores, little money<br>and stomach-rumbling hunger<br>all test her resolve.<br><br>When an earthquake hits<br>and separates Serafina<br>from friends and family,<br>she encounters her biggest test of all.<br><br>Serafina made a secret promise.<br>Will she survive to keep it?<br></div>