Homecoming By: Cynthia Voigt Young Adult Fiction 318 Pages ” What kind of mother would leave her four kids in a parked car in a strange town and then just walk away? Maybe a mother who went a little crazy. But the Tillerman Kids-Dicey, James, Sammy, and May beth-couldn’t do anything to stop her. All they could do was watch as their mother blended into the Saturday morning mall crowd. It was their last glimpse they had of her. Now Dicey only thirteen would have to find an adult they could trust to take them ALL in so they wouldn’t end up in foster care. Those were Dicey’s hopes.
But deep down Dicey was afraid that it was too much to hope for… .” Dicey Tillerman: Strong, young, scared, and frustrated, but seems to stay completely sane and hopeful when all hopes are gone and reality is the only thing there is. Abigail Tillerman: Strong, stubborn, and confused. She wonders if she takes her grandchildren in will she be fit enough to handle them.
Will they love her back if she loves them? The answer lies within her and she soon finds out its better to have someone than no one at all. “People say she crazy.” Said Dicey “Crazy like a Fox.” James replied. (Describing their Grandmother) The conflicts in the book are a mixture of INTERNAL and EXTERNAL. Dicey has people she meets that don’t treat them very good but than she fights with herself to not give up and keep going, believing that there is someone out there that will take them in and love them. All of them.
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Hope is brought back into the picture; the hope of not being hurt again; the hope of finding love again; the hope of actually being happy one more time in your life that's been a huge mess. Miraculously, you do find love again and you fall deeper. He loves you for who you are and your love for him is so great that you're willing to throw away your world because nothing else mattered but him. But ...
The theme the author develops about life is that not everything will work out but to keep looking and trying something eventually will work out. I would recommend this book because I found it to be very inspirational and comforting that there was someone who took them in and proved that there was still good to be had in the world. What made this book a literary classic is the family and the connection they had with each other even though they had a big obstacle they needed to over come before they could call a place home.
