Norma Fox Mazer Summary

Critical Essay by Ann A. Flowers In [Dear Bill, Remember Me? and Other Stories] the heroines are all young girls, each passing through a crisis in search of her own particular freedom. A certain simil... Read more

Critical Essay by Ethel L. Heins [The Solid Gold Kid is] a skillfully written and credibly plotted suspense story with fascinating psychological overtones…. At the mercy of a vicious, sadistic ... Read more

Critical Essay by Booklist [In Up in Seth's Room, fifteen year old Finn] feels confident that she wants to remain a virgin despite pressure to "go all the way"…. [It] is no... Read more

Critical Essay by Karel Rose [A Figure of Speech is] a tragic novel about the continuing deterioration of a "senior citizen" and the family's plan to move him into an "old ... Read more

Critical Essay by Laura Geringer [Mrs. Fish, Ape, and Me, the Dump Queen] is told from the point of view of Joyce, orphaned ward of her uncle Ape Man, the town trash collector. Mocked and ostracized b... Read more

Critical Essay by Jill Paton Walsh In "A Figure of Speech" Jenny Pennoyer loves her Grandpa, and finds it tough to get along with the rest of her family. This is hardly surprising, consi... Read more

Critical Essay by Karen Ritter Considering all the recent publicity about divorced parents who kidnap their own children, there was certain to be a juvenile novel on the subject sooner or later. And [... Read more

Critical Essay by Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide Mazer became interested in writing a novel about children who have been kidnapped after divorce when she learned that about 25,000 children ea... Read more

Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews If the title [of Summer Girls, Love Boys and Other Short Stories] turns you off, the first story, cast as a series of unsent letters to a boy the girl writer is stuck ... Read more

Critical Essay by C. Nordhielm Wooldridge [The stories in Summer Girls, Love Boys and Other Short Stories] are bound by locale, Greene Street; but with one peripheral exception the characters do not c... Read more

Critical Essay by Ethel R. Twichell A single neighborhood is apparently the setting for [Summer Girls, Love Boys and Other Short Stories, a collection of] nine short stories that are otherwise unrelat... Read more

Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly [When We First Met] is plotted on a situation that a less sure hand would reduce to a soap opera. But the award-winning author invests the ordinary people in her st... Read more

Critical Essay by Suzanne Freeman It's not hard to see why Norma Fox Mazer has found a place among the most popular writers for young adults these days. At her best, Mazer can cut right to the ... Read more

Critical Essay by Jack Forman To escape [from the anxieties of modern life, Zan, the heroine in Saturday, the Twelfth of October,] fantasizes a world in the Stone Age, complete with a new language and... Read more

Critical Essay by Alleen Pace Nilsen, Jane Coy, and Miken Olsen [A] fantasy that makes for exciting reading is Saturday the Twelfth of October. Zan Ford is a fourteen-year-old growing up in today�... Read more

Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews Short story collections at this level are scarce, and when a good one … does appear on a YA list it often seems to have wound up there by default…. [Maze... Read more