title: The Possibilities of Sainthood
author:  Donna Freitas 
description: Starred Review. Grade 7 UpAntonia Lucia Labella, 15, strives to become the first living saint in the history of the Catholic Church. She petitions various saints for any number of reasons, big and small, serious and amusing. Every month for the last eight years, she has written to the Vatican with a new idea for a patron saint for everything from fig trees to kisses and offered herself as a candidate for the position. Her first request after the death of her father was to become the Patron Saint of Daddy's Heart. Each suggestion has been met with silence, but Antonia hasn't given up hope. The teen's life revolves around working at Labella's Market (the best homemade pasta in Rhode Island), school, boys, and saints. Freitas brings to life the protagonist's experiences at a Catholic school and in an immigrant family. First loves and family feuds fill the pages. Antonia wants nothing more than to experience her first kiss with her longtime crush and is horrified when his advances indicate a desire for more. She takes her religion seriously, without proselytizing. With a satisfying ending, this novel about the realistic struggles of a chaste teen is a great addition to all collections.<i>Cara von Wrangel Kinsey, New York Public Library</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: SANCTITY WILL OUT 
  
  SANCTITY WILL OUT 
  An Essay on St. Joan 
  By 
  GEORGES BERNANOS 
  T ranslated by 
  R. BATCHELOR 
  NEW YORK 
  SHEED & WARD 
  1947 
  
  COPYRIGHT, 1947, 
  Bv SHEED & WARD, INc. 
  MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 
  
  SANCTITY WILL OUT 
  
  E
  VER SINCE our dear Péguy went to his end, 
  walking through the thick dust of sum­
  mer, with his checked handkerchief over 
  the nape of his neck, and his stout shoes taking 
  great strides along the highway ; ever since 
  then, one would have liked Joan of Arc to be­
  long only to children. In any case, everything, 
  if they will take it, does belong to them from 
  now onwards, for the hands of the old are too 
  nerveless to hold the world. But alas, no one 
  realizes it. The divine opportunity will be lost 
  like so many others ; the vice-like clutch, which 
  relaxed for one moment, will close on us again 
  tomorrow. The old man, with his feeble grip 
  and his tireless jaw-muscles, will again start 
  mumbling between his gums the lie that is as 
  st