“Ready to go home?” Gram asked Dicey. She was smiling.
Dicey just grinned back. “Ready,” she said.
CYNTHIA VOIGT won the Newbery Medal for Dicey’s Song and a Newbery Honor for A Solitary Blue, both part of the beloved Tillerman Cycle. She is also the author of many other celebrated books for middle-grade and teen readers, including the Bad Girls series; Izzy, Willy-Nilly; and Jackaroo. She was awarded the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 1995 for her work in literature, and the Katahdin Award in 2003. She lives in Maine. You can visit her at cynthiavoigt.com.
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Books by Cynthia Voigt
THE BAD GIRLS SERIES
Bad Girls
Bad, Badder, Baddest
It’s Not Easy Being Bad
Bad Girls in Love
Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?
THE TILLERMAN SERIES
Homecoming
Dicey’s Song
A Solitary Blue
The Runner
Come a Stranger
Sons from Afar
Seventeen Against the Dealer
THE KINGDOM SERIES
Jackaroo
On Fortune’s Wheel
The Wings of a Falcon
Elske
OTHER BOOKS
Building Blocks
The Callender Papers
David and Jonathan
Izzy, Willy-Nilly
Orfe
Tell Me if the Lovers Are Losers
Tree by Leaf
The Vandemark Mummy
When She Hollers
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:
Voigt, Cynthia.
Homecoming.
Summary: Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.
ISBN 978-0-689-30833-8
[1. Survival—Fiction. 2. Family Life—Fiction] I. Title.
PZ7.V874Ho
[Fic] 80-36723
ISBN 978-1-4424-5061-5 (hc)
ISBN 978-1-4424-2878-2 (pbk)
ISBN 978-1-4391-3207-4 (ebook)
Cynthia Voigt, Homecoming
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