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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 ]
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 .
The Tillerman Cycle is a series of children's novels by the author Cynthia Voigt. Currently there are seven titles in the series. Titles in the Cycle ...
Dicey's Song is a novel by Cynthia Voigt. It won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1983. Plot
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.
Seventeen Against the Dealer is the final novel in the seven-part Tillerman Cycle.The novel takes up the story of Dicey Tillerman, now 21, who has dropped out of college despite a scholarship in order to start her own business building wooden sailboats.
First edition (publ. Atheneum Books) Sons From Afar (1987) is the sixth book in Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman Cycle, the series of novels dealing with Dicey Tillerman's family which also includes Homecoming, Dicey's Song (winner of the 1983 Newbery Medal), The Runner, A Solitary Blue, Come A Stranger, and Seventeen Against the Dealer.
Bad Girls is a young-adult novel by Cynthia Voigt, first published in 1997.It follows two fifth-graders, Michelle "Mikey" Elsinger and Margalo Epps, exploring issues of friendship, courage, and ethics using the lens of these two girls who are ambitious, combative, intelligent, and independent in ways that break from the norm.