Dicey's Song
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 First edition cover - later printing |
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| Author | Cynthia Voigt |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Atheneum Books |
| Released | October 1982 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 196 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-689-30944-9 (first edition, hardback) |
Dicey's Song is a novel by Cynthia Voigt. It won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1983.
[edit] Plot
Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings James, Maybeth, and Sammy are now living with their grandmother Abigial Tillerman in Crisfield, Maryland. There, they are living a completely new life. As she gets used to this new life, Dicey has trouble letting go of her siblings enough to let Gram take over her role as the parent character. She also misses her mother who is at a hospital in Boston. Through the children's new school, the Tillermans make a new family friend, Mr. Lingerle (Maybeth's piano teacher), who ends up helping the family with many things throughout the story. At school, Diceys meets two new friends. They are Mina, a proud and friendly African-American girl, and Jeff, a high school student who likes to play the guitar. In December, Gram (the grandmother) and Dicey go to Boston to see Dicey's dying mother. When Dicey and Gram arrive at the hospital, the two find that she is incapable of speaking and has no hope of surviving. This discovery was very hard on both Dicey and Gram, even though they knew what to expect. Dicey's mother soon dies and, since they don't have the money to transport her body, they decide to cremate her. When Dicey and Gram arrive back at Maryland, the family buries the ashes under a mullberry tree in their front yard.
[edit] Other books based on the Tillermans
- Homecoming
- A Solitary Blue (A Newbery Honor Book)
- The Runner (need help from wikipedian; this presently redirects to an entry that is not Cynthia Voight's The Runner but I don't know how to disambiguate it)
- Sons from Afar
- Comes a Stranger
- Seventeen Against the Dealer
| Preceded by A Visit to William Blake's Inn |
Newbery Medal recipient 1983 |
Succeeded by Dear Mr. Henshaw |
