Stone Water

Barbara Gilbert. Laurel Leaf Library, $4.5 (176pp) ISBN 978-0-440-22755-7

A 14-year-old must decide how to honor his grandfather's wishes when the man is placed on life support, unconscious after a devastating stroke. ""The author's political views are only thinly veiled,"" said PW, but her ""personal vision of the meaning of life, death and love adds power and heft."" Ages 10-up. (Nov.)

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