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Dicey's Song
by Cynthia Voigt
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
VOIGT, Cynthia. Dicey's Song. NY: Atheneum, 1982. 8vo, [viii] 196pp. Light brown cloth decoratively stamped in bronze. Two-page illustrated title page. Slight rubbing to lower spine end and lower corners, else a clean, tight copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed). With a bookplate signed by the author, Newbery Medalist Cynthia Voigt, laid-in.
First edition. 1983 Newbery Medal Winner! The second book in the award-winning The Tillerman Cycle. Having been abandoned by their mother, after her breakdown, Dicey and her three siblings are finally settling in with their grandmother. Gram's rundown farm isn't perfect, but they can stay together as a family — which is all Dicey really wanted. Now she must face resuming a life where she is no longer the one in charge and figuring out who exactly Dicey Tillerman is.
Synopsis
The Newbery-winning novel in Cynthia VoigtâÈçs timeless series is repackaged with a modern look. When Momma abandoned Dicey Tillerman and her three siblings in a mall parking lot and was later traced to an asylum where she lay unrecognizing, unknowing, she left her four children no choice but to get on by themselves. They set off alone on foot over hundreds of miles until they finally found someone to take them in. GramâÈçs rundown farm isnâÈçt perfect, but they can stay together as a familyâÈ'which is all Dicey really wanted. But after watching over the others for so long, itâÈçs hard for Dicey to know what to do now. Her own identity has been so wrapped up in being the caretaker, navigator, penny counter, and decision maker that sheâÈçs not sure how to let go of some responsibilities while still keeping a sense of herself. But when the past comes back with devastating force, Dicey sees just how necessaryâÈ'and painfulâÈ'letting go can be.
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- Bookseller
- Books of Wonder
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1049130
- Title
- Dicey's Song
- Author
- Cynthia Voigt
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1982
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Size
- 8vo
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