cover image Listen for the Fig Tree

Listen for the Fig Tree

Sharon Bell Mathis. Puffin Books, $4.99 (176pp) ISBN 978-0-14-034364-9

In this poignant novel by the author of The Hundred Penny Box , a 16-year-old black girl struggles to hold her mother together during the Christmas holidays--the anniversary of her father's death. Ages 12-up. (Feb.)