Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104684 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05-04
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Synopsis
Dicey began to panic. The four of them had been waiting in the car for hours now. Why wasn't their mother back? Why had she just walked off like that? What would they do if she never came back? Dicey had known for a while that something was not right with her mother. There wasn't anything she could put her finger on, but when Mamma said goodbye to them that day in the supermarket car park, Dicey knew that she wasn't coming back. And so Dicey, as the eldest, plans to lead the three others halfway across America to their aunt -- on foot. And the story of how they reached their destination and what they found there is one of the most gripping in children's literature; it is the story of one child's courage against impossible odds, and of a determination to find a home that never lets up. Homecoming, the first in a series of seven wonderful novels, is a must for any reader, young or old.

Customer Reviews

Homecoming
I have nearly finished this book and I'm really enjoying it. It's the best book I have read. Anyone who is thinking of buying it I would recommend this book.

My Advice to Someone interested in Homecoming
Don't judge a book by its cover" is an important thing to keep in mind while looking at Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt. The outside of the book gives you the impression that it is a horror story set in a dark, gloomy forest, yet this impression couldn't be more different than the actual plot.
Homecoming is about four children that are abandoned by their mother and have to travel on the roads to get to places where they could live. On the roads, they meet a lot of diverse characters and various things happen to them, but it seems just like a chain of random events that happen to the same children. There is no connection between the people they meet and the things that happen to them. Cynthia Voigt tries to connect them by adding songs that are sung again and again and by one of the children saying, "It's still true" every morning.
If you like adventure and getting down to the point, you should read Homecoming. However, if you enjoy logical happenings and long poetic descriptions, this book is not for you, as there is close to none of this. When there are descriptions, they just seem really sentimental and corny.
The first forty pages are pretty exciting and make you want to read on, but then the next 150 pages get rather boring and not much happens. Once you have gotten past that, however, the story gets much better and more interesting. So don't stop reading it then because you think it is boring - trust me, the end gets quite good! It may not get suspenseful enough for you if you are maybe over twelve. I think this book suits the age group nine to twelve better.
Another piece of advice that I should give you is that there is a letter to the reader at the end of the book that the author has written. I think you should read it, but save it until the end. Reading it before you have finished or even started the book will give away too much and ruin it for you. However, if you read it at the end, you will understand the story better.

It was interesting!
I had to read this book for 7th grade in my highschool. When I purchased it, it looked absolutly boring, and looking at it, I thought I would never finish it within a month's time! I started reading it, and I was wrong. I finished the book in 3 days, and started reading it over for the exam in 2 days. It was a really good book because the characters can almost relate to yourself as a child of 13, 10, 9, or 6.