Homecoming

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Summary: Well written page-turner
Review: Cynthia Voigt grabs your interest and holds you spellbound as she draws you into the midst of these abandoned youth. With HOMECOMING she has started us on an adventure that leaves us eager to pick up the next in the series. The reader laughs and cries with DICEY and her younger siblings. I plan to tell all my friends about this great read.
Beverly J Scott

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Summary: Absolutly amazing
Review: This book shows the ups and downs of a family that is forced to stick together and be there for one another. I recommend this book to any young teen, male or female. But to get the full story, I also recommend reading the sequels.

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Summary: Homecoming Not a Good Book
Review: After reading Cynthia Voight's novels, Homecoming, I was depressed. I had heard so many good things about her writing that I thought that it was going o be something that I was not going to be able to down for a second. This was such a boring book.
I don't know if my taste is too square but I simply didn't like it. Other than being way too long. It seemed as if there was a problem, but in every problem there was another problem. Little by little the sequence of problems was unbearable.

Voigt's novel was about four kids who were abandoned by their mother in front of a shopping center. She left them sitting in the car in a town they didn't even know. The five of them had been on their way to their great aunt Cilia's house. They were going there because their mother could no longer afford to maintain them. They used to live in Delaware. They sat in the car waiting for hours, but their n=mother never came back. So Dicey, the oldest, decided that they would travel on foot to their great aunt Cilia's house. Along the way they slept in parks, next to beaches, on the grass, basically anywhere they found decent enough to sleep through the night.
So I could like the book the first thing that I would have to is make the story much shorter. Voight would have to unwind many of the problems for this to happen.
Homecoming is a book, which probably me, myself, would not recommend to anyone who likes reading. My reason why I say this is because it took me probably almost three months to read it, while it normally takes me about a week or two at the most. It is simply too long, and after a while it gets really boring.
The one thing that I found and learned about this book is the bond between siblings should never be broken. In the end, the ones that you will always have are your siblings. It taught me that being the oldest gives me the responsibility to my younger siblings.
Even now, in the end I believe that reading this book was a complete waste of time in which I could have read something completely different. Above all I would have liked to read something better than what I read.
Now, in the end, I would not recommend this book to anyone. There are much better books than Homecoming.

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Summary: Homecoming
Review: The Homecoming starts in a parking lot by the mall when the Tillermans mother was taking them to their aunt's house. She told Dicey to watch the small kids until she got back.

The main characters are their mother, Dicey, Sammy, James, Maybeth, and Aunt Cilla. Their mother leaves them in a parking lot next to a mall. When she leaves them and never comes back Dicey starts to worry and goes to look for her. James is the third oldest and helps Dicey a lot during the trip to get to there aunt's house. Maybeth and Sammy are very scared and thin that it was Sammy's fault that there mother left them.

The for kids are on a journey to get from Bridgeport to a city on the bottom of the state. They had to walk on big highways all the way there. They had 11$'s and something change. When there money runs out they have to find a way to get more money. They try and get little jobs for money such as helping people with their groceries did earn some money for food and supplies. Their best customers were usually pregnant women and older people.

But they had some problems ahead of them that they didn't know about. When they finally got to the aunts house the found out there aunt there aunt was dead, but they also found out that they had a cousin Eunice. They stayed with here for a while and gave them food and clothing. The cousin was going to adopt them but they ran away again. They also found out that there mom went crazy and couldn't remember anything.

When they ran away to there grand-ma's and they stayed there for a while and there grand-ma signed them up for school. They stayed at the grandmothers for a while.

That's when the book ended and I thought the book was very interesting. I think people should read it if they enjoy to read about peoples family problems.

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Summary: "Homecoming"
Review: Four kids are left, unattended in a parking lot of a huge mall. They're mother has gone crazy after their father left them. They watch their mother disappear into the morning crowd of people trying to get in and out of the mall. All the kids now have are a few bags of sandwiches and juices, a few pairs of clothes, a car and each other. All they know is their unknown aunt's address. Four kids, Dicey, James, Sammy, and Maybeth, over come a lot of obstacles to get to their aunt, Aunt Cilla. When they get there they discover that she has been dead for a year. Now the kids have a new adventure finding their long lost grandmother, who they found out about in Aunt Cilla's. As they struggle to get to their destiny they make new friends and new enemies.

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Summary: Mom's Crazy...We Gotta Stick Together
Review: Homecoming is a really good book. I read it because my teacher recommended it to me. This is a story of children sticking together. There are four kids: Dicey, 13, James, 10, Maybeth, 9, and Sammy, 6. They all have to make it from Pewauket to Bridgeport with eleven dollars. Their mom gets them from their home in Provincetown to Pewauket in their beat up old car and abandons them in a mall parking lot. They're trying to make it to a great aunt's house. She is the only relation they know of. Four kids, eleven dollars, and the heart it takes to stick together...Will they make it?

Try and read this great story of heart, ambition, and the right attitude it takes to make it in the real world.

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Summary: Don't listen! It's amazing!
Review: (...) Cynthia Voigt is a phenomonal (ooh dearie me. Look at that spelling) writer, and Heaven knows why she is not more recognied. I read this book when I was ten or so, about seven years ago, just the once, and yet many moments stick with me as some of the clearest from any book. The opening, with the children being left in the car as it gets later and later... the varied characters they meet, and the frighteningly real obstacles they come up against... for someone who has never visited America, and who at that age was not particularly informed abut anything, it made me feel I was part of the Tillerman family, that I had lived in their part of the States all my life, and spent time on those beaches, in those malls, on that road...

Who could call the book unrealistic with the scenes of the children begging stale donuts at the end of the day - maybe it isn't real as such, maybe it would not really happen, but what does that matter when it grabs you from your chair and spits you out on the dusty road beside Dicey and her siblings to walk beside them? Dicey is a character you have to be read to believe. She's intelligent, brave, determined, and a leader through and though - but she's a person. She's alive. Cynthia Voigt spends a rather thick book with her (plus follow-ups) and still manages to keep you friends with Dicey.

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Summary: the best book ever
Review: Homecomin is wonderful. I loved it. I toatly don't get what these people are talking about when they say it is boring .This book teaches you how to be greatful to have a mom and dad who love you very much.

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Summary: Homecoming
Review: I had to read this book for litature class. But, thats not the reason why I hate it. The fact is, it would be pretty hard to travel from Rhode Island to Connecticut. They had barely any money, and the chances that they'd find a park with a beach to find clams in? Hardly. These kids would have not even made it in the real world. And for a cop not to see four kids walking on the side of the road with no mother? One of the most boring and overly descriped books I have ever read in my life. At least when writers like Steven King and and Dean Kontz overly describe things it's interesting. Don't even waste your time with this book. Really, it's almost 400 pages long! And you don't call that really descriped? Give me a break. The entire premis of this book is stupid.

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Summary: Heh.. Hi Mrs. Dodds!
Review: I had to read this book for literature class. This book is incredibly boring. Not much else happens but walking. Most of this book consists of welling apon subjects that have little about them. Over and over again it is "We walked through (horribly long description of place they pass)". I successfully forced myself to read it and have written a book review filled with bogus opions for class. Please, all of you, save yourselves.