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. Serwa Boateng’s Guide to Vampire Hunting is the first in a series, and leans heavily on the folklore traditions she grew up with in Ghana which influenced her personal interest in vampires.
Her book is MEAN GIRLS meets BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER with a kick-butt Black immigrant heroine. Rosie, like her heroine, grew up in Ghana and was transported to what she affectionately describes as the “wild jungles of nowhere Maryland”.
