Crew, Hillary. "Blossom Culp and Her Ilk: The Independent Female in Richard Peck's Young Adult Fiction." Top of the News 43,3 (Spring 1987): 297-301. Crew notes especially the theme of isolation and loneliness contained beneath Blossom's bravado. Crew discusses this theme as a prominent one in much of Peck's fiction.

Gauch, Patricia. Review. The New York Times Book Review (December 18, 1983): 21. The reviewer finds the novel to be inferior to its predecessors in the series and finds Blossom's journey to the future to be too laden with dull social commentary.

Peck, Richard. Anonymously Yours. New York: J. Messner, 1991. In this autobiographical volume, Peck especially emphasizes how he became a writer for young adults and how material from his life is utilized in his fiction.

——. "In the Country of Teenage Fiction." American Libraries 4 (April 1973): 204-207. Peck here writes about young adult needs in relation to young...