Mary Stolz, whether writing for six or sixteen, is first of all a competent writer. She has a sense of form, style, and outstanding story-telling appeal. Her approach to adolescent girls' problems in dealing with the opposite sex is sensitive and understanding…. [Her books] are free of didacticism, although they are built around some of the common problems that trouble adolescent girls and that need to be brought into the open. This Mary Stolz does admirably in the course of a good story. (pp. 215-16)

May Hill Arbuthnot, in her Children's Reading in the Home (copyright © 1969 by Scott, Foresman and Company; reprinted by permission), Scott, Foresman, 1969.