Homecoming

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Summary: Homecoming
Review: Homecoming is a good book!! this book shows what would really happens to young childern on there own!! it also shows that you should love your family and love people you never met and they can help you!! the book shows things may not turn out like you want it to but it comes out ok!! cuz even if you are alone there are still people out there in the world that can help you!! these childern go a long way and go through alot just to find a loved one and still try to stay together!! you should really read this book!! when i first looked at it i said we have to read ALL this!! but i'm glad i read it!! Homecoming i really worth you time reading cuz you always want to know what happens next to 4 childern walking miles and miles looking for there crazy mother but they get something better!! so i think you should read homecoming!!

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Summary: A very well plotted book full of surprises
Review: This book is an increadibly touching book about four children trying to survive and get to their aunt's after their mother didn't return to drive the children. When I first picked up this book after a friend recommended it to me... I was unsure if I'd actually want to read it, but after the first page, my eyes were glued to each page and I just couldn't stop reading it. This book really lifts your heart. Cynthia Voigt really decribed her different characters well, each character carried different personalities but each has something in common with another. After reading this book I couldn't help talking about it to my family consistently the next days after until they took me to the library to get the next book, Dicey's song, which is just as good as homecoming I must say! So if you're looking for a great book to read... don't look any further!

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Summary: Homecoming: A Great Beginning to an Adventurous Series
Review: I am an avid reader and I got hooked on Homecoming. Cynthia Voigt, the author, takes you on an adventurous journey. She follows Homecoming with Dicey's Song, the second book in the Tillerman series.
Homecoming deals with children on a search to find family. They don't care whom; they just want to find family. Abandoned by their mother, they took a long journey to Bridgeport to find their great aunt that they had only heard of and received letters from. What they don't know is that great Aunt Cilia is no longer alive, so they must live with their cousin. The children stay together until plans change and they are off again.
While reading Homecoming, it felt like the characters were hiding from the world. Seeing how I have never read anything by Cynthia Voigt before, the book was very impressive. The vocabulary was rich, the storyline was just right, and the ends of the chapters hooked me to read more. I feel I enjoyed the book because it was very well written and it is in the genre of books that I like to read. I felt the same way about Dicey's Song. I thought it was actually better than Homecoming. My one complaint about Homecoming is that I felt like it was dragging on. Otherwise, if you get "hooked" on Homecoming like I did, read on in the series and enjoy some very good books.


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Summary: Heartwarming and heart-tugging
Review: As a new writer of YA fiction, I scooped this up for some inspiration on my Florida vacation and gobbled it up within two plane rides.

Its a tender, loving story of 4 children's journey from deep in New London county into Bridgeport (on foot!) after their mentally disturbed mother abandoned them in a parking lot. Being from Connecticut, I was drawn in even more as they children passed towns such as Branford and New Haven which are my neighbors.

It warmed my heart the way 13 year old Dicey managed what little money they had and the cleverness of their resources in making more. It 'tugged' my heart when they finally arrived at their aunt's house in Bridgeport only to find the aunt dead and the daughter (a nun in training) had taken over. Although she takes the kids in, its more because its her 'Christian duty'.

Knowing they can't stay where they're not wanted (and the fear of being separated because of Sam's rebelliousness and MayBeth's supposed 'slowness', the kids take off (again) in search of the grandmother. When they finally arrive, the book truly shines as the children cleverly 'woo' the hardened old woman to make her 'want' them to stay and not send them away.

For four young children to survive abandonment, walking for miles and miles in the heat, very little food and money poor sleeping arrangements and little hope, this story had me in tears just thinking about what these poor kids went through, but they persevered. Its a true story of encouragement and hope.

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Summary: Almost as boring as
Review: I honestly attempted to grasp why people enjoy this book so much and can't figure it out. What is so attractive about drawn out descriptions of details of little importance. I really started to get sick of hearing about how they thread the fishing line through the hook and put a worm on it after about the 3rd time. Also, I really didn't like how the younger boy, Sammy, would usually act like your average dumb kid but then would suddenly have bursts of insight that would last for a few pages and then he would suddenly become a whiney, blubbering moron. Not to mention, Dicey's tendency to commit the same mistakes over and over again, never seeming to learn from them, even though the author continues to insist that Dicey can think for herself and is intelligent. If I didn't have to write out a full chapter-by-chapter outline I probably never would have finished it, but I sure am glad I did so that I might be able to warn people before wasting their time on a book that barely meets the standard of "mediocre". [...]
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Summary: One of My Favorites
Review: This is actually the account holder's granddaughter typing this review. (...)I absolutely adored this book. It is really deep for a teen fiction novel and I think Cynthia Voigt is an amazing writer. After reading this book, I had the urge to go and buy everything else in the series! I only rated it a four because of the time period. It's not very current, so the prospect of only having eleven dollars is a little unreal. If this story had occured today, they would have maybe had twenty or twenty-five. But, it was easy for me to convert their prices in to current-day ones. I reccomend it for girls and boys over the age of 11. Great book!

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Summary: What I Think About Homecoming
Review: I rated Homecoming a 4. I gave it a 4 cause some of the events i didn't seem it was important. I like it cause it was funny and has adventure. To me it was like a story were when you start to read it, it would make you want to continue to read it to the end. The book was about a girl and 3 other siblings of hers who was left behind by her mother and is trying to find their way to their Aunt Cilla's house, but it is hard to stay out of trouble. If you like adventurous, funny, exiting book then it would be a good book for you. Thats why I rated it a 4.