"One thing I would like to say is that I'm a lesbian," proclaims Sandra Scoppettone in an interview for Authors and Artists for Young Adults (AAYA). "I mean, that should be clear. I also want to say t...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
No doubt Camilla Crawford's "terrifically" trendy, affectedly blase monologue [in Trying Hard to Hear You] is intentionally slanted to reveal a c...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
Those who consider YA novels according to the handling and breakthrough value of their messages will give [Happy Endings Are All Alike] a high rating for depicting an...
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Critical Essay by Catholic Library World
[Happy Endings Are All Alike is] a candid novel about a very controversial subject, lesbianism. The author handles the topic delicately, yet, frankly. She doe...
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Critical Essay by Patty Campbell
Happy Endings Are All Alike deals … with lesbian teen love and is a much stronger political and sexual statement [than Trying Hard to Hear You].
The story i...
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Critical Essay by Linda R. Silver
Dimensionless characters, a formless, melodramatic plot, and dialogue that substitutes repetitive jargon for human speech merge [in Happy Endings Are All Alike] to p...
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Critical Essay by Lenore Gordon
There is virtually no validation for the lesbian teenager, and not only is her right to self-respect opposed by adult institutions, but she is also subject to emotiona...
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Critical Essay by Geraldine Deluca
[Happy Endings Are All Alike] is Scoppettone's second work to deal with homosexuality, and it is a far more positive and assertive treatment of the subject t...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
[In Such Nice People], Scoppettone wants you to meet the Nash family of Logan, Pa.—a clean-cut, well-fed, all-American clan with seething craziness just beneat...
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Critical Essay by Michele M. Leber
[Such Nice People] could have come from page one of the sensational press, and it may be based in fact. But translating it to fiction (with a lurid masturbation-sod...
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Critical Essay by Kate Waters
Such Nice People covers a five-day period during which 17-year-old Tom, second child and first son of a family who collectively have every problem in vogue in YA literat...
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Critical Essay by Liz Williams
Long Time Between Kisses is a refreshing and well-written novel that explores the discovery and change inherent in adolescence. Billie James, the story's narrato...
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Critical Essay by The Booklist
[Trying Hard to Hear You focuses on the summer of '73, which for] narrator Camilla Crawford, a 16-year-old aspiring actress, revolves around the Youth On Stage p...
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Critical Essay by Annie Gottlieb
Sixteen-year-old Billie James, heroine of Sandra Scoppettone's Long Time Between Kisses … has grown up in SoHo and Greenwich Village, and she dodges dru...
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Critical Essay by Joseph A. Szuhay
[In A Long Time Between Kisses, the] author presents experiences facing many teen-agers in center city and creates situations that are both funny and sad, illustrat...
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Critical Essay by Jorja Davis
[In Long Time Between Kisses] Billie James must make some major changes in her life—or go [crazy]…. So—Billie cuts off her hair in a sort of butcher...
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Critical Essay by Barbara J. Craig
As in Scoppettone's other books, excellent writing and lively characterizations grace a heartwarming "it could happen to me" story. [Long Time ...
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Critical Essay by Alice Bach
[Trying Hard to Hear You] is one of this year's most affecting novels…. Without a trace of moralizing and never skirting the issue, Sandra Scoppettone has e...
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Critical Essay by Annie Gottlieb
[In "Trying Hard to Hear You"], Scoppettone has taken an inherently condescending form and pumped it full of "nature" content; the result ...
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Critical Essay by Alleen Pace Nilsen
Trying Hard to Hear You is a fourth book to put on the shelves next to [Lynn Hall's Sticks and Stones, Isabelle Holland's Man Without a Face, and Jo...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
[The Late Great Me] is centered on a problem rather than on empathetic characters. Geri Peters counts herself among the "freaks" in high school. Her ...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
The Late Great Me could easily have been published as a "young adult problem novel" … since that's the audience which will primarily liste...
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Critical Essay by Karen Mcginley
The Late Great Me is the depressingly impressive story of Geri Peters, one of the half-million teenage alcoholics in this country. Although [Geri] is a fictional char...
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Critical Essay by Publishers Weekly
Scoppettone's "Trying Hard to Hear You" … was a sensitive, well-written novel about young male homosexuals. ["Happy Endings Are ...
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Sandra Scoppettone
Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
