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Summary: My all-time favorite book! So is it's sequal, "Dicey's Song"
Review: My all-time favorite book! So is it's sequal, "Dicey's Song". I was crusin' on the USA network last christmas, and saw the last half hour of the movie Homecoming. It was a good last half hour, and the credits mentioned a book "Dicey's song". I went to the library, and found two books: Homecomeing, and Dicey's song. Both great books! Now, I just need to see the rest of the movie...
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Summary: Moving, relevant and well written.
Review: I bought this book for my children, four teenaged daughters, and read it myself before I gave it to them. I found myself reading all seven books in the series over the next two weeks. The Tillerman children -- Dicey, James, Samuel and MayBeth -- are among the most memorable characters I have met in 35 years of reading, whether in juvenile or adult fiction. Dicey ranks with Jane Eyre, Scarlett O'Hara and Kay Scarpetta. My kids are also hooked on these books. Good things don't always happen to the Tillermans, even when they do the right thing, but they stick to their values and have a strong sense of family.
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Summary: Homecoming is a superb book about 4 kids left by their mom.
Review: Homecoming is an excellent book. It's about four kids whose mother leaves them in a parking lot. The oldest child, Dicey, then has to try to find the kids a home. When I read this book, I felt myself thinking about what I would do if I were in their position. In Homecoming, there are a lot of times when it seems like everything will be OK, but something happens to make things worse. Homecoming is a GREAT book. I think that other kids will enjoy it.
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Summary: Perhaps I'm a bit biased, but...
Review: Oh boy, I remember having to read this book in the sixth grade, and although I may be biased against books read in school in general, I doubt this here is just my bias speaking. The worst part, I think was the style -- it was so goddamn drop-dead serious, without a single hint of cynicism or subtlety... I felt like the primitive ideas of love, perseverance, trust, etc were being pounded into my head with a sledge hammer. Then, of course, were the characters. Now, it is not written anywhere that a novel's protagonists must be likable. However, if the author expects us to identify with them in order to convey the novel's theme, the author must at least make the characters not outright disgusting. Dicey was the worst in this respect. Although she was able to conduct her family across several states at age 13, I, at 11, could not believe some of the STUPID things she said and did. Not knowing what a concussion is, as one reader pointed out, is just an example. And that infuriating "practicality" -- it was an utter lack of imagination. Maybeth was almost as bad -- she WAS slow and retarded. Being able to pick out tunes and play the piano does not an intelligent nine-year-old make. The author was trying to make a virtue, practically, out of weakness and stupidity. Also, there was the issue of oversentimentality, which goes back to my first point, about it being too unsubtle. When a book is written as heavy-handedly as this one, there must be some clever sarcasm, some poison, some cynicism, anything, to keep it from reading like a parody of its genre. Re-reading it now, I could hardly keep from wincing through most of the passages.
In summation, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. However, I have a feeling 99% of the people that read it do it because they have no choice. For some reason, teachers and school administrators have an uncanny, unhealthy obsession with this book, and it is on the in-class reading list for almost every school district I know. Oh well. Such is life.
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Summary: Good book
Review: I really enjoyed this book, it brought out the way kids think, well some of them do, and the things they would say. I think that it could have had a little(very little) less detail, also it has some confusing parts, but I figured them out, but other than that it was pretty good. It is hard to get me to read/finish a book, and I finished this, and that means a lot.
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Summary: I loved it!
Review: I first read this book in elementary school. Now I am in college and it is still one of my favorites. Other people have said that the dialoge was stupid or that the characters were boring. I think that it was a wonderful story of four scared children. Dicey was so strong, much stronger and more resourceful than any other thirteen year old I know.
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Summary: Can you say BORING??
Review: The first ten chapters took me so long to read because I kept falling asleep. Nobody in their right mind will read a book just to read what people are saying to each other. But, that is all this book is, Dicey talking to her brothers and sister. This is the worst book I 've ever read.
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Summary: Wonderful, extraordinary, great; I mention extraordinary?
Review: Dicey, the oldest kid of the Tillerman family, has to make some hard dicisions very few 13-yr-olds have had to make all at once. After their Momma leaves them at mall far from their home, Dicey has to take her sibs, James, Maybeth, & Sammy, to their Aunt's house miles away, by foot. She's got to feed them, and get them money, and stay away from police and such. Homecoming is a truly moving book.
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Summary: Not the Best I Have Ever Read
Review: The book can be rated with an okay- but I think that it is not as good as it is said to be. Some parts of the book are interesting-but others are dull and all conversation. The book is very hard to follow, and I suggest reading it to yourself. When I read it to myself, I found it much more moving than when my teacher read it to me.
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Summary: Bore Yourself To Sleep
Review: This was the boringest book I've ever read. The conversations were very dull. Here is an example: "Dicey, will Mommy be in Bridgeport?" "I don't know Sammy." "I'm worried. I miss Mommy." "Shut-up Sammy there's nothing for sure except death and the speed of light." That's all it was just rambling on and on about missing Mommy. And HOW in the world does a 13 year old girl not know what a concussion is??? James was the absolute worst though. This kid is supposed to be SMART???? "There's nothing for sure except death and the speed of light." That idiot. And Dicey treats him like a king for crying out loud! Also, this book was WAY TOO DESCRIPTIVE. I mean I like a descriptive book, but do we have to know every single little thing they do?! I absolutely hated this book and I advise people to read it only if they have to.
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