Title: Raising Heaven
Description: Seventeen years after she was born to a prison inmate, Deja agrees to raise her newest half-sister for the first six months, until their mother's next release, but despite the help of friends and relatives and a support program at school, caring for a baby proves to be a monumental task.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Mother-daughter relationship, Family life, Prisoners' families, Babies, Infants, Mothers and daughters, Fiction, African Americans, Children's fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Infants, fiction, African americans, fiction, Texas, fiction
Places: Houston, Houston (Tex.), Texas