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After moving in with her grandmother, Dicey Tillerman begins to realize that her younger brothers and sister will still need a lot of attention from her
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This is the sequel to HOMECOMING and is the winner of the winner of the Newberry Award. Here Dicey (our courageous protagonist) and her siblings are adjusting to life on a farm with their grandmother. But Dicey has new conflicts--puberty and the longing for her dying mother. Of the 300 top selling mass market books Ballantine has published in the past year, DICEY'S SONG ranks as number 44. Free Teacher's Guide available (394-21872).
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At the beginning of summer, Momma had abandoned them and them later been traced to an asylum where she lay unrecognizing, unknowing. So Dicey Tillerman, her brothers James and Sammy, and her sister Maybeth had spent the summer on their own on a long and difficult journey to find a home with the grandmother they'd never met before. Now that they'd moved in with Gram, their troubles, Dicey hoped, would be over.
Dicey had watched over the younger kids and brought them through--now she wanted to be just a little bit selfish, to refinish the old sailboat she'd found in Gram's barn, to earn a little spending money, to adjust to Gram and to her new life in the Chesapeake Bay country that had once been her momma's childhood home.
Yet even with the building of new ties and a new life, old problems and sorrows did not go away by themselves. None of the Tillermans, and especially not Dicey, could forget about Momma. Nor could Dicey easily relinquish her need to watch and worry over the three younger children. Though she felt a growing bond with feisty, seemingly eccentric Gram, who talked of reaching out...and letting go, it took a crisis to help Dicey understand what such things might mean.
This story is a sequel to Homecoming.
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- PublisherCornerstone Books
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 1557361665
- ISBN 13 9781557361660
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages291
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Dicey's Song.
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Cornerstone Books., Santa Barbara, Calif., 1990
ISBN 10: 1557361665
ISBN 13: 9781557361660
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Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Thus. 291 pages "Large Print" edition. laminated hardback issued without a dustwrapper, lovely near fine to fine condition, no inscriptions, not ex-library, octavo. 1st edition in this "Large print" version, won the Newbury Medal for young adults/children in 1983. *The story of 4 abandoned children who then live with "gram" in a small Maryland town and 13 year old Dicey and her relationship with "gram" and how they all cope with the loss of their mother. Seller Inventory # A368
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