While regularly petitioning the Vatican to make her the first living saint, fifteen-year-old Antonia Lucia Labella prays to assorted patron saints for everything from help preparing the family’s fig trees for a Rhode Island winter to getting her first kiss from the right boy.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux/ Frances Foster Books, $16.95, August 2008, ISBN#: 978-0-374-36087-0
