Article: Donna Freitas: The Possibilities of Sainthood.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)

Donna Freitas The Possibilities of Sainthood

274 pp. Foster/Farrar 8/08 ISBN 978-0-374-36087-0 $16.95

(Middle School, High School)

Fifteen-year-old Antonia Lucia Labella, whose family owns an Italian market in Providence, Rhode Island, has two strong passions: saints and Catholic-high-school hottie Andy Rotellini. Antonia has studied the saints for years and petitions them on a daily basis, from St. Expeditus ("Patron Saint Against Procrastination") to St. Walburga ("Patron Saint of Harvests, Against Storms and Coughing") to Mary Magdalen ("Patron Saint of Hairstylists'). For years Antonia has been writing the Vatican with proposals for ...

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