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Dicey's Song
by Cynthia Voigt
I hadn't read this before (or any of the later books in the series) and I was totally captivated. It's the sequel to Homecoming (where Dicey and her three younger brothers and sisters are abandoned by their mom and they make their way from Massachusetts to the eastern shore of Maryland--hey, that's where I'm from!--to their grandmother's house).
In Dicey's Song, it's about their transition to life without their mom and with their grandmother. School's started and it's causing huge changes for all of them--Maybeth is slow and is teased, Sammy is trying really hard not to get in fights but failing a little, James is trying not to be as smart as he is so he'll fit in better and Dicey has to deal with home ec. And if you haven't read any of these books, she doesn't do so well in home ec. At all.
I'll be reading the rest of the series this year, doling them out one per month. I think I finish in June but it may be July.
(ETA--it's now May 2010 and I haven't gotten any farther. But I will!)
In Dicey's Song, it's about their transition to life without their mom and with their grandmother. School's started and it's causing huge changes for all of them--Maybeth is slow and is teased, Sammy is trying really hard not to get in fights but failing a little, James is trying not to be as smart as he is so he'll fit in better and Dicey has to deal with home ec. And if you haven't read any of these books, she doesn't do so well in home ec. At all.
I'll be reading the rest of the series this year, doling them out one per month. I think I finish in June but it may be July.
(ETA--it's now May 2010 and I haven't gotten any farther. But I will!)