Dicey's Song 孤女悲歌
2002-3
Simon & Schuster
Cynthia Voigt
359
Letting Go The four Tillerman children finally have a home at their grandmother's rundown farm on the Maryland shore. It's what Dicey has dreamed of for her three younger siblings, but after watching over the others for so long, it's hard to let go. Who is Dicey, if she's no longer the caretaker for her family? Dicey finds herself in new friends, in a growing relationship with her grandmother, and in the satisfaction of refinishing the old boat she found in the barn. Then, as Dicey experiences the trials and pleasures of making a new life, the past comes back with devastating force, and Dicey learns just how necessary -- and painful -- letting go can be.
Cynthia Voigt won the Newbery Medal for Dicey's Song and the
Newbery Honor Award for A Solitary Blue, both part of the beloved
Tillerman Cycle. She is also the author of many other celebrated
books for middle-grade and teen readers, including Izzy,
Willy-Nilly and Jackaroo. She was awarded the Margaret A. Edwards
Award in 1995 for her work in literature, and the Katahdin Award in
2004. She lives in Maine.
