Campbell, Patty. "The Young Adult Perplex." Wilson Library Bulletin (May 1987): 51-52. Campbell reviews both Older Men by Klein and After the Rain by Norma Fox. She recognizes the biographical aspects of Klein's novel and speaks of its "thematic richness" and of its "Dark Freudian implications." She praises the characterization and calls the work "the most moving and substantial" Klein has produced.

Klein, Norma. "Books to Help Kids Deal with Difficult Times, I." School Library Media Quarterly 15 (Spring 1987): 161-164. This article reproduces an address Klein gave in 1986 to a conference sponsored by the American Association of School Librarians. In it, she discusses her own works in connection with two mean ings of her topic, helping children deal with the difficult times we are all living in and helping them deal with their own individual problems.

She talks about her own reading as a teen-ager, her...