| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780689309441 | | Publisher: Athenum | | Publish Date: 10/1/1982 | | Buy.com Sku: 30125956 | | Item#: RL9XKS | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.5H x 5.75L x 0.75T |
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| | | | "What a day, Dicey thought. What a summer, for that matter, but especially, what a day..." (from the first line) Keeping her family together is what thirteen-year-old Dicey does best, but now that the four Tillerman children are settling into their new home, Dicey has to learn to let go -- and find a new role for herself.
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The Tillerman children settle into life with their grandmother while trying to sort out their feelings about the mother who abandoned them. Winner of the 1983 Newbery Medal.
| Author Bio| Cynthia Voigt | | Cynthia Voigt decided in the ninth grade that she wanted to become a writer. She attended Smith College, and after graduation moved to New York where she worked for an advertising agency. After marrying her first husband in 1964, she moved with him to New Mexico where she became a teacher. The couple had one daughter and divorced in 1972. Voigt and her daughter moved to Maryland, where she continued to work as a teacher. It was while searching for books to share with her class of fifth graders that Voigt began to get ideas for young adult and juvenile books that she could write herself. Her first book, HOMECOMING, was published in 1981. The sequel to that book, DICEY'S SONG, won the Newbery Medal in 1983 and, the following year, A SOLITARY BLUE--a companion piece to DICEY'S SONG--was named a Newbery Honor Book. |
| Awards |
Newbery Medal (1983) |  | won, Children's | |
Horn Book Award (1983) |  | finalist, Fiction | | |
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