Mary Stolz stands alone among the authors who now write fiction for the teen-age girl—alone and above. Her characters and situations have the reality and the depth one hopes for in a good adult novel and yet she truly speaks the language of her teenager readers. She seems to live and to be her girl characters, so well does she understand them. "Rosemary" is the story of two girls in a college town who know each other largely through a common interest in several boys. Helena, who comes of a well-to-do family, goes to the college. Rosemary works as a salesgirl and yearns for what the college stands for. It is a town-versus-gown story and it is written with the perception, sympathy, and also the warm understanding of family relationships that we have come to expect from this author. (p. 82)

Lillian Morrison, in The Saturday Review (Entire...