The writing [of A New and Different Summer] has an easy flow, but the story moves slowly; it has the appeals of familiar characters, a modest home setting, and realistic events, but the main theme (Katie Rose's menus and shopping extravaganzas) is somewhat belabored. (p. 172)

Katie Rose Belford, who seemed, in earlier installments, to have some sense and spirit as well as brains … submits to the appeal of Gil(martin) Ames [in I Met a Boy I Used to Know]…. Gil is clearly a Lost Cause … but Katie Rose clings to her faith that "his showoff was only a cover for inner insecurity and unhappiness."… [She] finally realizes that her ill-starred hero is just plain unpleasant and unreliable, and moves "out from under his dark star." The Belford clan … is strictly in the background: instead of One Girl's Family it's A Woman's Folly. But Miguel—zany, dependable Miguel—is expected in thirty-eight and-a-half days; readers might well skip this inauspicious interlude and, with Katie Rose, await his return. (p. 1145)

Virginia Kirkus' Service (copyright © 1966 Virginia Kirkus' Service, Inc.), November 1, 1966.

Mostly Katie Rose is in the wings [in Angel in Heavy Shoes], waiting for the Muse; it's Stacy's and Ben's show…. Katie Rose is hung up over the subject of a play for a contest everyone expects her to win…. In his obtrusive institution shoes, [Irv, just back from reform school, has] been an angel unawares and just what Katie Rose needed to start her play, Angel in Heavy Shoes. The blarney is laid on without a brogue and the Good Samaritanship isn't all goody-goody; if you can stomach the series at all, you'll find this easier to take than some. (p. 126)

Kirkus Service (copyright © 1968 Virginia Kirkus' Service, Inc.), February 1, 1968.

The focus of [Come Back, Wherever You Are] is Beany's concern for Jodey [the four-year-old son of Kay, a hospitalized friend,] and what it does to her family life, expecially to her relationship with husband Carl—a shift of interest for teenage fiction but not for girls who watch afternoon TV. Before Kay's death and the final wrap-up, assorted relatives and classmates pose their own problems, and the solution for one of the latter is also the answer for Jodey and Joe. All very tidy, but Mrs. Weber's audience will still call it neat. (p. 58)

Kirkus Reviews (copyright © 1969 The Kirkus Service, Inc.), January 15, 1969.