Homecoming
Dicey began to panic. The four of them had been waiting in the car for hours now. Why wasn't their mother back? Why had she just walked off like that? What would they do if she never came back? Dicey had known for a while that something was not right with her mother. There wasn't anything she could put her finger on, but when Mamma said goodbye to them that day in the supermarket car park, Dicey knew that she wasn't coming back.
And so Dicey, just thirteen years old but as resourceful as they come, begins to lead her young siblings halfway across America to their only known relative—on foot. This is a story of four children's courage against impossible odds and of their relentless determination to find their place in the world.
Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award Nominee (1988)
About the Tillerman Cycle Series
Books in series order
- 1.Homecoming(1981)
- 2.Dicey's Song(1982)
- 3.A Solitary Blue(1983)
- 4.The Runner(1985)
- 5.Come a Stranger(1986)
- 6.Sons from Afar(1987)
- 7.Seventeen Against the Dealer(1989)
Reading age: 11+ years
This series should be read in order.
It's still true . . .
That's the first thing James Tillerman says to his sister Dicey every morning. It's still true that their mother has abandoned the four Tillerman children somewhere in the middle of Connecticut. It's still true they have to find their way, somehow, to Great-aunt Cilla's house in Bridgeport, which may be their only hope of staying together as a family.
With just eleven dollars to their name, the children—aged between six and thirteen—set off on a journey across America towards an uncertain future. Will their resourcefulness and their love for one another be enough to survive? This celebrated series by Newbery award-winning author Cynthia Voigt is heartfelt, shocking and thoroughly engrossing.
A Note on the Reading Order:
The only book to have a definite reading order is the first, Homecoming, as the narratives of the other books overlap. Dicey's Song, A Solitary Blue, and Come a Stranger are the most interlocked and can be read in any order following Homecoming and before Sons from Afar and Seventeen Against the Dealer. The Runner is a stand-alone prequel, the events of which take place approximately ten years before Homecoming.