Serwa Boateng Books in Order

The Serwa Boateng books are middle grade fantasy adventures with a very good hook: what if a kid who had spent her whole life training to fight monsters suddenly had to deal with regular school too? Serwa is twelve, blunt, brave, and already skilled at hunting adze, shapeshifting vampires from Ghanaian folklore. Then everything goes sideways, and Maryland becomes her new battleground.

Middle school is not the easy part.

In Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting, Serwa is sent to Rocky Gorge after an obayifo attacks her home. Instead of traveling with her parents on monster hunts, she is stuck with an aunt, a cousin, and a school full of teachers, bullies, and algebra. Of course there is also an adze in town, which means Serwa has to protect classmates while feeling cut off from the life she knows best. Brown gets a lot of mileage out of that clash between magical training and ordinary kid problems.

What makes the series especially fun is the way the ordinary and the supernatural keep crashing into each other. Serwa worries about detention, friendships, and fitting in, but she is also reading magical signs, tracking dark forces, and learning how much of her family history has been kept from her. The books draw deeply from Ghanaian folklore without treating it like wallpaper. The creatures, rules, and spiritual stakes are the engine of the story.

The second book, Serwa Boateng's Guide to Witchcraft and Mayhem, pushes Serwa's identity crisis into the open. She learns she is half vampire, goes on the run from the Slayers she grew up expecting to join, and gets pulled into a plot involving the Midnight Drum and a high-stakes heist in Washington, D.C. The conflict stops being just about defeating monsters and becomes about deciding who gets to define her, and what she owes to blood, training, and loyalty.

That question keeps growing.

By Serwa Boateng's Guide to Saving the World, the scale is bigger but the emotional center stays personal. Serwa has to face her grandmother Nana Bekoe, save her father, and work with friends whose trust she has damaged, all while searching for help beyond the usual rules of magic. The trilogy becomes a story about heritage, friendship, family pressure, and what it means to choose yourself when every group wants a piece of you.

Overall, this is a fast, funny, heartfelt series that balances monster fights with family mess and real kid frustration. If you like magical adventures where the hero talks back, the folklore matters, and the friendships count just as much as the final battle, Serwa's books are a great place to start.