| Booktalk
#1
From Provincetown to Bridgeport
through state parks and New Haven, to Aunt Elia's a disappointment -- Dicey
gets a job cleaning windows and saves enough to check out grandmother Tillerman's
house in Chesapeake Bay. All the kids want to go so off on a bus they go.
They try picking, they meet up with the circus, they arrive at Abigail
Tillerman's and Dicey learns she likes the fight in her grandmother. The
setting on the Chesapeake is an old farm with lots of chores they complete
to postpone leaving. Maybeth passed her IQ test to get into 3rd, James
want to plant Christmas trees and Dicey wants to sail. But they're home.
Booktalk #2
Cynthia Voigt's Homecoming
is about the four Tillermen children. Their mother leaves them by a shopping
mall. The children find their way to their aunt's house. The aunt is going
to put them in foster homes. Dicey, who is the oldest, leads the kids on
the journey to their mother's mother's house. Their mother has a serious
illness. It is hard for the kids to cope with their mother's illness and
absence along with their grandmother's rough and tough manner. ( Sandra
Watkins <costa.watkins@misslink.net>)
Booktalk #3
First their Dad leaves them
then while traveling to their Aunt's house in Bridgeport. Then their
Mom leaves them too! They only have eleven dollars to use for food but
they can’t spend it all in one place because if they do then the will be
starving. Join Dicey, James, Maybeth, and Sammy in Homecoming while they
try to find places to stay, try not to let people notice they are by themselves
and try to keep their money so they won’t be starving! (Megan S.,
8th grade student, Rundlett Middle School)
Booktalk #4
What would you do if your mother
abandoned you in a parking lot with three younger siblings? Well that’s
exactly what happened to Dicey Tillerman. Dicey is only 13 years old and
has to take care of her three younger siblings. There’s James who is ten,
Maybeth who is nine and Sammy who is six. Now the four Tillerman
children are on a journey to find a new home with a great aunt Cilia’s
house but when they get there aunt is dead and her daughter is a drag so
off the go again. Off to find someone else and when they get there ,there
are shocking things about theirs family’s past. With only seven dollars
and who knows how many miles to go will the Tillerman’s make it? To find
out read HOMECOMING. “It’s still true” that this book is one of my
favorites. This book is a challenge and I suggest this book for kids and
adults that are willing to find out what it’s like to be on the road and
searching for someone that wants you. (Kaitlin W., K-12 student) |
