Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Very Eccentric

I read this book as part of my Teaching the Reading of Young Adults course. I was completely unfamiliar with Block before reading this, and was not very familiar with young adult literature before taking this course. The stories were good, but the fact that they're all short stories left me wanting more. Each of the nine stories could have been at least novellas.Every story is eccentric, dealing with controversial issues, such as lesbian parents, teen drug abuse, sexually active teens, alcoholism, etc. And the author doesn't seem to condone or condemn any of these activities. That's just a warning to anyone who is considering a book like this for a teenager.I enjoyed the book. And if it suits your fancy, there are definite influences in this book of feminism, mysticism, and post-modernism.