Dicey's Song
About this book
When Momma abandoned Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings in a mall parking lot and was later traced to an asylum where she lay unrecognizing, unknowing, she left her four children no choice but to get on by themselves. They set off alone on foot over hundreds of miles until they finally found someone to take them in. Grams rundown farm isnt perfect, but they can stay together as a family which is all Dicey really wanted.
But after watching over the others for so long, its hard for Dicey to know what to do now. Her own identity has been so wrapped up in being the caretaker, navigator, penny counter, and decision maker that shes not sure how to let go of some responsibilities while still keeping a sense of herself. But when the past comes back with devastating force, Dicey sees just how necessary and painful letting go can be.
Tillerman Cycle · 4 books
In publication order- Homecoming 1981
- Dicey's Song 1982 This book
- A Solitary Blue 1983
- Seventeen Against the Dealer 1989
Subjects
- brothers and sisters
- brothers and sisters, fiction
- children
- children's fiction
- courage
- families
- family
- family, fiction
- family life
- family life, fiction
- family relationships
- fiction
- grandmothers
- intergenerational relations
- juvenile fiction
- large type books
- newbery medal
- siblings, fiction
- students
- young women