well, Podkayne is a book for young readers, while Stranger surely is not! I'll second the recomendation to seek out the 'unabridged' version of Stranger though, it's a better novel in many subtle ways. A big part of 'Grumbles From The Grave' (which is a collection of Heinlein's letters back and forth with his agent and editors) concerns cutting on Stranger.
If you have not heard of it yet, any Heinlein fans need to get a copy of the novel 'Variable Star' it is truly the last RAH novel, it was written by Spider Robinson, from a outline and fragments Heinlein set aside in the 50s and never finished. It's a great read.
One other note, at Apollocon this year I had the pleasure to meet David G. Hartwell, who is the senior editor at Tor Books. He is finishing up editing a huge Heinlein biography due out hopefully by the end of the year from Tor.
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