I Will Call It Georg

Suzanne Newton. Laurel Leaf Library, $2.75 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-440-94090-6

The Reverend Mr. Sloan's family seems perfect, from the outside. But the minister places impossible demands on his family that force them to cope in different ways. PW pointed out that Newton is admired for injecting humor into novels about serious problems but added, ""there is nothing funny in this hard-hitting, moving story about the destructive forces of pretense.'' (12-up)

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