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  • Published: 3 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781368067010
  • Imprint: Disney Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.00

Rick Riordan Presents: Serwa Boateng's Guide to Witchcraft and Mayhem





Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the highly anticipated sequel to Rosanne A. Brown's explosive novel about a preteen vampire slayer, inspired by Ghanaian folklore

Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents the highly anticipated sequel to Rosanne A. Brown's explosive novel about a preteen vampire slayer, inspired by Ghanaian folklore.

"Rosie writes her characters with such lyrical power, wit, and empathy that you can't help falling in love with Serwa Boateng, her family, and her friends."
—Rick Riordan, New York Times best-selling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

After a lifetime of fighting creatures of black magic, twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng has just learned a devastating secret: she herself is half vampire! Now not only is she dealing with vampire puberty, she’s on the run from the organization of Slayers she trained her whole life to join.

Serwa's only ally is her aunt Boahinmaa, an obayifo who urges Serwa to embrace her vampire side. Boahinmaa and her underlings are on the hunt for the Midnight Drum, from which they hope to free Serwa's grandmother. When they learn that the Abomofuo have hidden the Midnight Drum deep within the Smithsonian Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C., what do they do? Stage a heist to steal it, of course!

For their plan to succeed, Serwa will have to get close to her rival, a Slayer named Declan Amankwah, without revealing her real nature. Declan gets under her skin like no one else . . . and might just force Serwa to confront some truths she's tried hard to deny. 

With both sympathy and laugh-out-loud humor, Rosanne A. Brown captures all the discomfort of a girl stuck between two worlds in this second book in the unputdownable Serwa Boating saga.

  • Published: 3 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781368067010
  • Imprint: Disney Publishing
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $24.00

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Praise for Rick Riordan Presents: Serwa Boateng's Guide to Witchcraft and Mayhem

Praise for Serwa Boateng's Guide to Witchcraft and Mayhem

*"This sequel to Brown's explosive Ghanaian contemporary fantasy brings all the action and heart of the first book and turns it up to an eleven. The themes of friendship are as strong and heartfelt here as in the first book, but it’s the burgeoning relationship between Serwa and her aunt, once her sworn enemy, that really speaks to the message of the story, which is beautifully related in the author’s note: 'I challenge anyone who reads this book to ask themselves exactly who gets to decide what makes another person a monster and why.'"—Booklist (starred review)

"Serwa continues to be a humorous narrator and an accessible guide to life, reluctant middle school crushes, the joys of tasting mumbo sauce for the first time, and return trips to the underworld of Asamando. Joyful, unexpected reunions give Serwa firmer footing for a high-stakes deal with Owuo, the god of death, suggesting a lot more is in store for this headstrong hero. Family means everything in this thrilling, heart-wrenching sequel."—Kirkus Reviews