Bush, Margaret. "Mariposa Blues."

Horn Book (July/August, 1991): 464.

In this review, Bush provides a brief discussion of Koertge's book and its themes of girl/boy friendship and father/son conflict that occur around the Mariposa racecourse.

"Ron Koertge." Boston: Little, Brown, 1992. Koertge's publishers have put together this informative pamphlet that combines an interview with the author with a brief discussion of his young adult novels.

Vasilakis, Nancy. "The Boy in the Moon." Horn Book (July/August, 1990): 462. Vasilakis compares this book to others written by Koertge, including The Arizona Kid and writes that the combination of frank descriptions of "teenage male sexuality . . . together with . . . large doses of humor" and Koertge's ability to take teen-age problems as seriously as teen-agers do, "raises this teenage problem novel above the norm."

——. "The Harmony Arms." Horn Book (July/August, 1992): 727-728.

Vasilakis provides a short review of Koertge's...