"I hope this collection will bring the reader something beyond the pleasure of the stories themselves. I hope it will help young readers remember their present intensity when they are older, help them realize that hidden in every adult is the young person that adult once was. And I hope these stories make older readers remember the intensity of their youth and so feel closer to those young people who are in their lives today." Charlotte Zolotow, April 1973 (From the Foreward)