What Teddy learns [in Out of Love] (and her change and acceptance are wholly credible) is that beauty is in the eye of the loving beholder, that people recover from a ruptured relationship, and that one can love people—and they you—even when they disappoint you and no matter what they look like. The book is not unusual either in the situations it covers or in the depiction of a period in which a young adolescent gains maturity; it is perceptive, however, the characters are believable, and the writing style and dialogue have vitality.

Zena Sutherland, "New Titles for Children and Young People: 'Out of Love'," in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (© 1977 by The University of Chicago; all rights reserved), Vol. 30, No. 10, June, 1977, p. 168.