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Title: Dicey's Song (Thorndike Large Print Literacy Bridge Series) by Cynthia Voigt, Cynthia Voight ISBN: 0-7862-6288-5 Publisher: Thorndike Pr (Largeprint) Pub. Date: March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.16 (103 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Thought-provoking
Comment: Once, I read a qoute from a critic on the back of a book. "Thought-provoking," it said. A qoute like that ought to be on the cover of Dicey's Song. I only just finished this book, about 13-year-old Dicey and the new life she makes for herself at her grandmother's in Maryland. Even if I forget near-to every detail, I'll remember how often I'd put it down and just think and think. I'd like to put all my thoughts on my reveiw, but there isn't enough room :-) I mostly thought about what Dicey thought. Why she thought it. And I sometimes wondered how she figured things out, when the puzzles seemed impossible to me. Maybeth, her younger sister, is slow, and musically gifted. The way the school-system is teaching her, she just can't learn. Dicey, as well as her grandmother and mature younger brother, James, had to find a way to teach her so she would remember what she was taught. Sammy, known for fighting in school, was being an angel instead. Then, of-a-sudden, he starts fighting. For no apparent reason. James Dicey has to hold on to. Dicey herself didn't seem fond of the idea of friends when I first read about her. Perhaps it was in Homecoming, Dicey's Song's prequil, that I read Dicey didn't want friends because a peice of her, her heart, would belong to a friend. Dicey wants to belong to herself. She also worries about money, Dicey. Like her grandmother does. She gets a job and learns to respect her dim-witted employer, Millie. She gets around to making firneds too. Or rather, they, Mina and Jeff, make her their friend. It was toward the end that I thought the most. Two things are said there. Let go and hold on. Gone and home. I'll remember them too, as well as the thoughts. I feared Dicey's Song would end sadly, but like in Homecoming, the ending leaves you contented.

Rating: 4
Summary: Dicey's Song
Comment: After struggling to survive the summer alone with her two brothers and sister, Dicey finally arrives at her grandmother's house. Dicey Tillerman a thirteen-year-old girl has had the responsibility of keeping her family together. Now her new challenge will be learn to let go and except that she is only a teenager herself
After moving in with their grandmother, and starting to become a family, Dicey realizes that life as she knew was to change forever. She starts to live as any other teenager would. Enrolling herself in school and even getting a job at a local grocery store, she becomes more like a sister and less of mother to her siblings. Dicey also starts to rely and be more open with her grandmother, emotionally. Over time she creates a tight circle of friends in school and at home.
The Tillermans themselves start to bond as a family. With all the kids in school, they become more and more as ordinary children. The oldest boy, James, not only becomes an excellent student but also a reliable paperboy. Maybeth finds passion in music, while Sammy makes friends with the local boys.
[But with their lives settled in, what will a word about their long lost mother do]
Reading this book helped me find the true meaning of a family. I enjoyed this book and i hope a lot of you will too!

Rating: 3
Summary: Bookcrazy
Comment: I Loved the book but I kept on getting very confuised at time and I have to go back and reread it. I think the writer could have told the story a bit more discriptive on some the parts.
But other than that I Loved the story