\"[A] wonderfully fresh...amusing, tough, and tender novel.\"-San Francisco Chronicle

\"Touching and entertaining.\"-The New York Times

\"Gidget makes one think of Catcher in the Rye.\"-Hartford Courant

\"Shocking but wonderfully entertaining.\"-The Pittsburgh Press

\"Gidget is delightful.\"-San Francisco Call-Bulletin

\"An amusing, revealing and...touching picture of the uncertainty of adolescence.\"-Manchester Evening News

\"Mid-summer madness about beach bums, surf boards, malibu and a fifteen-year old american answer to Francoise Sagan.\"-Los Angeles Times