Reception
Reception for The Bluford Series has been positive, with the ALA picking several of the books in the series as "quick picks for reluctant young adult readers" in 2009 and 2012. The ALA also selected Payback as a 2012 "popular paperback". Educators in Florida and New York have noted that the series has been well received by their student population.
Of Brothers in Arms, a reviewer for the Journal of Adolescents & Adult Literacy wrote that the book's themes were applicable to struggling teens and showed that "sometimes it only takes one or two people believing in someone to turn that person's whole life around."
Kirkus Reviews called Survivor (Bluford Series #20), one of the newest Bluford titles, "A brave young-adult novel" and said the Bluford Series "offers unflinchingly honest plot situations to engage and educate readers." Favorable reviews for The Test (Bluford Series #17), Brothers in Arms (Bluford Series #9), and Pretty Ugly (Bluford Series #18) can also be found in Kirkus Reviews.
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