Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults List Nominee —YALSA

2005

Oklahoma Book Award

1997

Texas Lone Star Reading List

1999-2000

Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults List Nominee —YALSA

2005

Oklahoma Book Award

1997

Texas Lone Star Reading List

1999-2000

Junge-Jugendbuch-Jury Award

1998

Books for the Teen Age —New York Public Library

1997

Children's Literature Top Choice List

1997

Children's Literature and Reading Special Interest Group —IRA

1997

Los Angeles' 100 Best Books

1996

Best Book —School Library Journal

1996

School Library Journal

"The handling of this difficult subject is thoughtful, poignant, respectful, and honest … the sentiments ring true and resonate."

Kirkus Reviews

"A rich, absorbing story of believable situations and intelligent characters. No reader of any age will be unmoved."

Publishers Weekly

"… [an] emotionally charged first novel; the author's personal vision of the meaning of life, death and love adds power and heft to her narrative."

School Library Journal

"The handling of this difficult subject is thoughtful, poignant, respectful, and honest … the sentiments ring true and resonate."

Kirkus Reviews

"A rich, absorbing story of believable situations and intelligent characters. No reader of any age will be unmoved."

Publishers Weekly

"… [an] emotionally charged first novel; the author's personal vision of the meaning of life, death and love adds power and heft to her narrative."

Voice of Youth Advocate

"This excellent, poignant book should be on all school and public library shelves."

Five Owls

"The emotional and ethical journey . . . is fully believable — and gripping. This is an intensely moral coming-of-age story, which effectively shows that some of life's most serious questions have no one answer; each person has to grapple and find his or her own point of resolution."

Oklahoman, The Sunday

"The book is about more than the euthanasia dilemma. It is about our attitudes toward an older population, about parents and children, about love."