Critical Essay by Alice Miller
[The Fog Comes on Little Pig Feet is] fast-paced, adequately written entertainment…. Although the characters … are stereotyped and one minor character nev...
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Critical Essay by Katherine Paterson
I began [Leave Well Enough Alone] laughting with delight at Rosemary Wells's marvelous re-creation of fourteenness—the fervid rejoicing over a mista...
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Critical Essay by Susan Terris
Not since Dorothy was whisked off to Oz have I encountered a Dorothy as impressionable and thoroughly sympathetic as the heroine of Rosemary Wells's "Leav...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
The characterization [in Leave Well Enough Alone] is strong and the dialogue natural; the story is overcrowded however, with the mystery and suspense of the adult co...
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Critical Essay by Jane Langton
[The Fog Comes on Little Pig Feet] is the secret journal of Rachel Sasakian, scribbled after lights out while she crouches in a bathtub at boarding school….
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Critical Essay by Jean F. Mercier
Ms. Wells writes with uncompromising honesty; the feelings of all characters [in "None of the Above"] are believably expressed and the plot concerns a ...
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Critical Essay by Joni Bodart
When her father remarries, doltish Marcia … finds herself out of place with her sophisticated stepmother and her whiz-kid stepsister Chris. In the five years that...
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Critical Essay by Dale Carlson
"None of the Above" is a sensitive novel of teen-age problems, the search for identity in a confusing world, the alien feeling within the context of an al...
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Critical Essay by Sister Mary Columba, P.b.v.m.
Marcia Mill discovers new pressures, new adjustments, new problems in her life after her father remarries. Her brilliant stepsister brings competition,...
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Critical Essay by Margery Fisher
The boarding-school world depicted in The fog comes on little pig feet, though not quite St. Trinian's, would probably be taken as a satirical picture if the s...
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Critical Essay by Rosamond Faith
The theme [of The Fog Comes On Little Pig Feet] inevitably recalls Salinger; the disastrous first week at a posh boarding school of Rachel, fierce, funny and working-...
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Critical Essay by Jane Abramson
[In Leave Well Enough Alone] Dorothy is … left on her own to decide the most moral course of action. Although the mystery is contrived and confusing at times wi...
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Critical Essay by Alice Miller
