Girls rejecting fantasy and period novels and eager for the reassurance in "real stories of girls today" can be deluded by the pseudo realism and false values predominating in many of their books. Mary Stolz's remarkable empathy with the characters in her books is particularly important in her stories about older boys and girls. At a time when many teen-age stories are misleading, she always plays fair. The people of her books are alive, their world is the contemporary world, and their stories are told with truth and dignity. (p. 107)

Ruth Hill Viguers, in her Margin for Surprise: About Books, Children, and Librarians (copyright © 1964 by Ruth Hill Viguers; reprinted by permission of Little, Brown and Co.), Little, Brown, 1964.