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Paula Danziger is a best-selling author of novels for teens and pre-teens who is known for her light and humorous take on the serious problems that beset adolescents, including the break-up of a famil...
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Paula Danziger is one of the best-selling authors for young adults currently working in the United States, perhaps most widely known for The Cat Ate My Gymsuit. Her characters tend to be good-hearted ...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
Ninth-grader Lauren [in Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?] has a stereotypically impossible father (he rails against his wife going to work part-time; he disow...
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Critical Essay by Jane Langton
["Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?"] takes place in the airless chamber of early adolescence.
The heavy problems of Lauren and Linda and Bonnie ar...
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Critical Essay by Faith Mcnulty
[Paula Danziger is a writer like Judy Blume] who capitalizes on the sordid details of adolescence [and whose] "Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?"&...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
Thirteen-year-old Cassie starts her first-person story [The Pistachio Prescription] with the assertion that "Pistachio nuts, the red ones, cure any problem,�...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
The quotation from [Albert] Camus that precedes [The Pistachio Prescription] tells all: "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invi...
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Critical Essay by Selma G. Lanes
["The Pistachio Prescription"] is a novel no thoughtful 9- to 13-year-old should let parents see. They may not survive the instant ego deflation of viewi...
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Critical Essay by Cyrisse Jaffe
Lively, believable and thoroughly readable, [The Pistachio Prescription] will have the same wide appeal as the author's previous book, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit. Ca...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
[In Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice?, Lauren's parents] give her trouble, particularly her father, who is domineering; she's also troubled by h...
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Paula Danziger
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