Lenora Mattingly Weber's latest teen romance [Sometimes a Stranger] again pits stereotyped wholesomeness against stereotyped evil. Spirited Stacy Belford breaks off her romance with Bruce Seerie because he has not yet asserted his independence from his meddling, snobbish mother. While Stacy plunges into a whirl of activity to forget him, Bruce belatedly cuts the umbilical cord and consequently plunges into a deep depression…. Will these two finally get together? Of course, with the help of some new types for a Weber novel—hippies with hearts of gold. A further nod in the direction of the new age is Stacy's plan to embark on a career with no mention of marriage and "working 'til the baby comes."… Nevertheless, the characters here … are one dimensional, and the plot holds few surprises. (p. 141)

Rebecca Ricky Friesem, in School Library Journal (reprinted from the April, 1972 issue of School Library Journal, published by...