One of the best of Mary Stolz's fine novels, ["Second Nature"] is a story about life and human beings and love. About different kinds of love because there are so many different kinds of human beings….

The mature teen-ager will find more than a good story in these pages. "Second Nature" has the gift of helping readers to meet their own problems more honestly and clearly. (p. 8)

Phyllis A. Whitney, in Chicago Sunday Tribune, Part 4, May 11, 1958.