Entry 47 48, and 49- A Solitary Blue, The Runner, and Come a Stranger (The Tillerman Cycle)9/2/2016 A while ago I mentioned the books Homecoming and Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt, books that focused on brothers and sisters who were abandoned by their mentally ill mother and walked across hundreds of miles to find their grandmother. The first two books in the cycle focus mainly on Dicey, the oldest Tillerman, but books 3-5 stray from the siblings. A Solitary Blue is all about Dicey's friend Jeff and his family's dynamic after his parents have separated.The Runner is about Dicey's uncle growing up in the time of Vietnam. For those of you who enjoy history, you get a high school student's perspective on things like the draft, the war, and the integration of black and white students in school. Come a Stranger focuses on Mina, a character that does become friends with Dicey. It seems Mina always has the right answers, but in this book we see the struggles she faced before meeting Dicey due to her race. All three of these books continue Voigt's great story line while enhancing our understanding of life in America
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Note From Ms. PIt will probably come as no surprise that I am an avid reader. I have also been spending a lot of time in the Dawn Hodges Library here at WAAS evaluating what books we can add to have students really READING. Some of you already read on your own, which is great because reading opens your mind to new ideas and possibilities you might not otherwise think of. It helps you to imagine and live in a new world for a little while, which is something we all need sometimes. Archives
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