[A Bright Star Falls] finds its popular heroine [Beany Malone] now a senior at Harkness High and editor of the school paper…. The seriousness of … new situations and problems makes the book seem somewhat more significant than many of the earlier titles in a growing series. (p. 124)

Barbara Joyce Duree, in The Booklist and Subscription Books Bulletin (reprinted by permission of the American Library Association; copyright 1959 by the American Library Association), October 15, 1959.