[In The Doomsday Gang] white teenagers in Los Angeles form the Doomsday Gang in an attempt to survive a violent world. By publishing this book, Kin Platt and Greenwillow have surely created a new genre of children's literature—vulgarism. Realistic stories about the problems of modern youth living in far less than ideal conditions have been enjoyed by the many fans of S. E. Hinton and Frank Bonham, but neither of these authors and countless others had to writher in the slime of language to project their stories for children and young adults. Each page is literally loaded with obscenities, and will certainly offend everyone.

James Norsworthy, in his review of "The Doomsday Gang," in Catholic Library World, Vol. 50, No. 5, December, 1978, p. 236.