It demands the skill of a writer like Mary Stolz to write a story [like The Edge of Next Year,] so honest and perceptive that the nuances of shifting relationships and the conflicts between love and resentment are solid and believable enough to compensate for the lack of action—no lack is felt. (p. 123)

Zena Sutherland, in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (© 1975 by the University of Chicago; all rights reserved), March, 1975.