Cynthia Voigt's moving Tillerman books-which trace journeys both physical and emotional-have garnered many honors, including a Newbery Medal for Dicey’s Song and a Newbery Honor for A Solitary Blue.ġ. And as they grow up and begin to follow their own separate dreams, it becomes more and more difficult to remember just how important family can be. As they build a new life with their grandmother, however, they must learn how to remain a close-knit unit under very different circumstances than those they had previously known.
Even when they are abandoned by their emotionally ill mother, they find strength in each other as they search desperately for a place to call home. The four Tillerman children-Dicey, James, Maybeth, and Sammy-have always presented a unified front to the world in spite of the troubles they encounter.
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