Dicey's Song

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Summary: I love the books Cynthia Voigt writes!!!!!!
Review: This is the second book I read that Cynthia Voigt wrote. The first one I read was 'A Solitary Blue', a story about Jeff. I started looking for more Cynthia Voigt books and have read all the Tillerman series. I love the way Cynthia Voigt writes and I'm sure a lot of people would too. So go check out a Cynthia Voigt book at the nearest library! Aya Yamada from The American School In Japa

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Summary: Dicey's Song" won the Newberry Medal in 1983!
Review: A wonderful book about family, love, and growing up! The book "Dicey's Song" is wonderful. It tells of death, loss, hope, love, and friendship. It is about a teenage girl named Dicey who is trying to get used to her new home with her grandmother, her adolescence, and trying to figure out who she is. Once I started this book I could not put it down. Cynthia Voigt is my favorite author, and this book is one of the reasons why. This is the second book in the Tillerman Cycle, and is the sequel to the first one called "Homecoming". This is one of my two favorite books that I have read by her. I liked it because it told of a young teens life and of her struggles and her feelings as well as other things. It is a sad book and it made me cry. I really couldn't relate to much of the story, but I could relate to some of the feelings Dicey felt. It was so realistic that I couldn't believe it was fiction. Cynthia Voigt combines all her talent into this amazing book. I felt like I was actually part of the story as I was reading this book. This book won the Newberry Medal in 1988. If you haven't read this book you are missing out on a great read, and you should go get it as soon as you can. I also reccomend the other books in the Tillerman Cycle. Chesley Burruss, The American School In Japan, Toky

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Summary: dicey's song
Review: this is a great book as almost all of ms. viogts are. It's about a girl and her topsy turvey family learning to survive alone and stay together. If you have read "a solitary Blue" you should read this because it's at the same time period but from another persons point of view. if you like cythia this is one of her best,alana Norto

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Summary: A 13- Yr old girl and siblings are abandoned by their mom
Review: Dicey leads her siblings through a variety of states in search of home and family.Working occasionally to earn money to feed her family,Dicey finally finds who she sought,but wasn't sure this person welcomes them.the ups and downs they had weren't forgotten ,but the ending surely made up for it

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Summary: Thought-provoking
Review: Once, I read a qoute from a critic on the back of a book. "Thought-provoking," it said. A qoute like that ought to be on the cover of Dicey's Song. I only just finished this book, about 13-year-old Dicey and the new life she makes for herself at her grandmother's in Maryland. Even if I forget near-to every detail, I'll remember how often I'd put it down and just think and think. I'd like to put all my thoughts on my reveiw, but there isn't enough room :-) I mostly thought about what Dicey thought. Why she thought it. And I sometimes wondered how she figured things out, when the puzzles seemed impossible to me. Maybeth, her younger sister, is slow, and musically gifted. The way the school-system is teaching her, she just can't learn. Dicey, as well as her grandmother and mature younger brother, James, had to find a way to teach her so she would remember what she was taught. Sammy, known for fighting in school, was being an angel instead. Then, of-a-sudden, he starts fighting. For no apparent reason. James Dicey has to hold on to. Dicey herself didn't seem fond of the idea of friends when I first read about her. Perhaps it was in Homecoming, Dicey's Song's prequil, that I read Dicey didn't want friends because a peice of her, her heart, would belong to a friend. Dicey wants to belong to herself. She also worries about money, Dicey. Like her grandmother does. She gets a job and learns to respect her dim-witted employer, Millie. She gets around to making firneds too. Or rather, they, Mina and Jeff, make her their friend. It was toward the end that I thought the most. Two things are said there. Let go and hold on. Gone and home. I'll remember them too, as well as the thoughts. I feared Dicey's Song would end sadly, but like in Homecoming, the ending leaves you contented.

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Summary: Book2-Dicey's Song
Review: This was the first book I read in the Tillerman Cycle an when I finished I read the others right away.
Dicey has finally found a home for herself and her brothers and sister. But now she has to start a new school year and help support her family. She finally starts to live a normal life, that is until Gram gets a letter from Boston about their sick mother. Will Dicey be able to start a new life and let go of the control she has over her family's life ?
I recommend this book to anyone who liked Pictures of Hollis Woods.

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Summary: Dicey's Song
Review: This book is about a thirteen year-old girl named Dicey and her brothers James and Sammy and her sister May Beth. Their mother abandoned them when they were all going to the mall. Now they are going to live with their grandmother they have never even met before. She is making new friends at her new school and maturing to a woman. Everything is going perfect! May Beth is finally getting good grades. Then their mom is near death, she is dying in the hospital up north where they have grown up. They take a trip up there to go see how their mother is doing, but they make a wrong turn!!!!! Read the book to see what happens next. I thought this book was okay. There were some boring parts, but there were some real good parts that made up for the boring parts. I strongly recommend you read this.

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Summary: Dicey's Song
Review: Dicey's family has settled down with their grandmother, but Dicey feels unsettled. She's constantly worried about her siblings, and a little about herself. She finally finds friends in a black girl, Mina and a boy named Jeff. It seems the Tillerman's have finally settled down. Cynthia Voigt is an awesome writer. I love all of her books.