The Heaven Shop
Deborah Ellis
 The plot of "The Heaven Shop" centers around 13 year old Binti, a girl from Malawi with above-average socio-economic status for the country.Binti's mother had died from AIDS about 6 years ago. Binti's father owns a coffin shop called The Heaven Shop, hence the title of the book. Binti is a star on a radio show called "Gogo's Family" and helps support the family with the money she earns through her work on the show. Binti's father, Bambo, is infected with AIDS and contracts pneumonia due to his suppressed auto-immune system. After Bambo dies, Binti and her siblings are placed in the care of her less wealthy relatives, who take all of their belongings and force them to move to their homes. The rest of the novel focuses on the hardships the siblings have to go through, and the effect one AIDS-related death can have on a family. In the end, their Gogo died. The family of children will have to survive together, but it's a new start for all of them.