Serafina, her family, and friends are good role models for loyalty and bravery, and overall messages are positive about the importance of family and accepting yourself for who you are.

It's mentioned that men retire to the smoking room in the mansion to smoke cigars. Some friendly and sympathetic forest animals are caged and in peril, with a safe resolution. Serafina kills a villain while they're both in animal form. Blood and pain from injuries are occasionally mentioned but not described in detail. The characters are frequently in peril and there are a lot of fantasy-violence fights with animals that attack viciously because they're bewitched. You don't need to read the first book to follow the story here the past is explained, and even though the plot springboards off the first book, it's separate enough to follow on its own. Set in North Carolina in 1899, the story picks up three weeks after the events in Book 1. Parents need to know that Serafina and the Twisted Staff is the sequel to Serafina and the Black Cloak. Animals are trapped and caged by the villain there's a safe resolution.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Lots of creepy, spooky, supernatural atmosphere. In human form she kills a chimney swift thinking it's a bat or rodent.

The Children’s Book Review (Read our full review of Seraphina, by Rachel Hartman. Serafina kills a villain while they're both in animal form and feels it's morally justified to defeat her enemy once and for all. This is a debut novel quite like no other, a fantasy painted in the most intricate and believable manner, one that will take a hold on the imagination of readers’ young and old. Bites, scratches, kicks, punches, and fangs sinking in are mentioned pain is sometimes described briefly. OL16703295W Page_number_confidence 89.29 Pages 394 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210709190853 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 243 Scandate 20210709044438 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780857531568 Tts_version 4.Fantasy violence involves fights with animals that attack viciously because they're enchanted. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:04:24 Boxid IA40171612 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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