Raising Heaven

By Patrick Jones

Subjects: Mothers and daughters, fiction, African Americans, African americans, fiction, Infants, Mother-daughter relationship, Prisoners' families, Fiction, Children's fiction, Infants, fiction, Texas, fiction, Juvenile fiction, Babies, Mothers and daughters, Family life

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.