Rees, David. "From Russia With Love?

—Esther and Deborah Hautzig." In What do Draculas Do? Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1990: 79-87. A comparison of The Endless Steppe and Hey, Dollface. Rees not only talks about the difference in language, with Esther's being more British than Deborah's American voice, he talks about the similarities. Both novels have strong women characters who have a curiosity about life.

Rosenthal, Lynne. "To Be or Not to Be: Suicide in Literature for Young People." The Lion and the Unicorn: 12 (June 1988): 19-27. This article looks at ways in which literature can help to stop the alarming rate of suicides among teen-agers. One of the books looked at is Second Star to the Right; after a brief review of the book, the article find that the novel "may be helpful to adolescent readers with similar problems" as Leslie's.