Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. "The HDIGIP Quiz." Online web page available at: http://www.users.interport.net/~hdu/ lisasue.htm. An amusing quiz that provides information about how to get published (or not) in the children and young adult market.

Deifendeifer, Anne. Review. Horn Book 73, 2 (March-April 1997): 210-11. Deifendeifer gives a grade of A to Growing up in Coal Country and describes the work as "engrossing" and a "thoroughly researched account of working and living conditions" in coal towns.

Rochman, Hazel. Review. Booklist 93, 7 (December 1, 1996): 652. Rochman gives Growing up in Coal Country a review grade of A, describes the work, and recommends it for adults as well as young readers.

Whelan, Frank. "Coal Country Mines Gritty Histories; Growing up in Coal Country by Susan Campbell Bartoletti."Morning Growing Up in Coal Country 143 Call (Allentown), June 29,1997, p. F3. An enthusiastic review of Growing up in Coal Country.