Estes, Glenn E. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 52. Detroit: Gale Research, 1986. Contains a discussion of O'Dell's career with detailed descriptions and reviews of his young adult books.
Townsend, John Rowe. A Sense of Story: Essays on Contemporary Writers for Children. New York: Lippincott, 1971.
Includes a brief overview of O'Dell's early novels and an excerpt from an essay in which he discusses his aims.....
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