| 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) |
