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Cynthia Voigt (born February 25, 1942) is an American writer of books for young adults dealing with various topics such as adventure, mystery, racism and child abuse. Her first book in the Tillerman family series, Homecoming , was nominated for several international prizes and adapted as a 1996 film. [ 1 ]
In Homecoming, the four Tillerman children search for a new home after they are abandoned by their emotionally ill mother.Dicey and her younger brothers and sister eventually settle in with their grandmother ("Gram") on a stark homestead in Crisfield, Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay.
Homecoming is a 1981 young adult novel by American children's author Cynthia Voigt. It is the first of seven novels in the Tillerman Cycle . It was adapted into a television film .
At the time of the book's publication, Kirkus Reviews said, "Through all the hardships, comforts, and passages, Dicey remains the sturdy presence we met in Homecoming; new [] she and Gram make a strong, crusty pair, and the other children come along according to their observantly individualized courses.
A Solitary Blue (1983) is a novel by Cynthia Voigt. It was a Newbery Honor book in 1984. [1] It is the third book of the Tillerman Cycle, set concurrently with Dicey's Song and Come a Stranger. It revolves around Jeff Greene, a boy who struggles after being abandoned by his mother at age 7.
Malcolm Rose: Traces series, The Death Gene, Plague, Transplant, The Tortured Wood; Liz Rosenberg: Heart and Soul, 17: A Novel in Prose Poems; Meg Rosoff: How I Live Now, Just in Case, What I Was; Veronica Rossi: Under the Never Sky, Through the Ever Night, Into the Still Blue; Veronica Roth: Divergent trilogy, Carve the Mark
The Runner, a 1972 film featuring Delvene Delaney; The Runner, an Iranian drama film; The Runner, a crime thriller film; The Runner, a 2013 documentary about Salah Ameidan; The Runner, an American political thriller film
Voigt (mainly written Vogt, also Voight) is a German surname, and may refer to: Alexander Voigt, German football player; Alwin Voigt (1852–1922), German school teacher, writer, and ornithologist; Angela Voigt, East German long jumper; Christian August Voigt (1808–1890), Austrian anatomist; Cynthia Voigt, author of books for young adults