Hi, thanks bunches for this info. While not in the Christian genre, I read homecoming and dicey's song during the time before I even knew about Christian fiction. I know I was 13 when I read homecoming and maybe Dicey's song, but I may have been 14 or 15. I started a solitary blue but couldn't get into it and didn't know until a few weeks later that it was a part of the Tillerman books. I read the first two books on cassette through the Library of Congress, and the reader did a fantastic job on them. I'm glad Carrie added the numbers onto them so people will know which ones to read first. Bookshare and NLS both has led me to know how diverse a writer of teenage and children's fiction Cynthia Voigt is. I read a bunch of books by Lenora Mattingly Weber that featured close Catholic families, and Homecoming and Dicey's song had enough of the Catholic faith and other things to appeal to me. I'm not Catholic but find the structure interesting. I enjoy Catholic fiction. I didn't know until recently that any of these books won the newberry award, but did you know they made a movie of homecoming? Well, they did and I watched it on Hallmark several years ago. Thanks again and have a blessed day. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judy s." <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Jamie, the Cynthia Voigt books are called the "Tillerman" series, and Carrie has added the numbers in. smile.Aren't they great books? I'd recommend them to anyone. They're for teens, and initially about a young teen who takes her younger brothers and sister on a cross-country trip to find a living relative who will take them in after their mentally ill mother dies. Then the series branches out and follows now only them but also friends the main character in the first book, Dicey, met or is related to. The characters and situations are very 3-dimensional, and complex, and the books don't "fix" everyone's lives in a pretty box with a bow, either, in some instances. The book "The Runner," which is entirely a flashback of one generation in the series, for example, ends with a main character dying in Vietnam. While written recently, in the 1980s, they aren't about sex and drugs and aren't full of foul language, like so many modern teen books are. On the other hand they aren't in the Christian genre at all, either. "Dicey's Song" won the Newbery medal, and "A Solitary Blue" was a Newbery Honor book.I hope you get a chance to read the entire series, Jamie. smile. I think the third book, "A Solitary Blue," is my favorite.Here's the order: Tillerman 1: Homecoming Tillerman 2: Dicey's Song Tillerman 3: A Solitary Blue Tillerman 4: Runner, The Tillerman 5: Come a Stranger Tillerman 6: Sons from Afar Tillerman 7: Seventeen Against the Dealer Judy s. Jamie Prater wrote:Hi, the books by Cynthia Voigt about a girl named Dicey and her brothers and sister that starts out with homecoming doesn't have series numbers or anything on them. I read homecoming and Dicey's song and thought that was all there was about that family. It wasn't until searching around on the bookshare site and/or looking at the new books that I learned there were four others. I don't want to read them out of order, but because of how they're written, I may inevitably do that. I know there's sons from afar, the runner, seventeen against the dealer, and come a stranger but I'm not sure in what chronological order they are. This info would be helpful on bookshare if it can be found.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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