Since her first young-adult novel, Homecoming, appeared in 1981, Cynthia Voigt has had more than a dozen books published and has received the prestigious Newbery Medal for Homecoming's sequel, Dicey's Song. She is recognized as an accomplished...

Cynthia Voigt is an accomplished storyteller noted for her well-developed characters, interesting plots, and authentic atmosphere. In her novels for children and young adults, she examines such serious topics as child abandonment, verbal abuse, racism,...

Cynthia Voigt has full confidence in her newest YA novel, When She Hollers (reviewed p. 246). "I know it's as true as I can make it," she states. All the same, she adds, "I was fully prepared to have Scholastic [her publisher] say,...

From staff reports Portland Press Herald (Maine) 10-23-2005 CYNTHIA VOIGT Byline: From staff reports Edition: FINAL Section: Audience Column: Signings, etc. Deer Isle resident and teacher Cynthia Voigt is the author of more than 20 books. She received a Newbery Honor for...

Spunky heroines: I've lived my life since girlhood wanting to be one and to this day they remain my preferred characters in fiction. But, in reading these two new novels, Them That Glitter and Them That Don't [by Bette Greene] and The Callender Papers [by Cynthia Voigt], I missed that familiar frisson of identification with the protagonists of either book. This isn't, I hasten to add, simply because I'm from the wrong age-group, or I don't think it is; certainly, I continu...

Less ambitious than Voigt's other novels, [The Callender Papers] conforms to an established juvenile-fiction genre, but it is a superior example of its type. Written in the first person with a touch of period primness, it's the story of Jean Wainwright's 13th summer in 1894, which she spends away from Aunt Constance, the admirable girls'-school headmistress who raised her, in the employ of wintery Mr. Thiel, the widower of Aunt Constance's girlhood friend Irene Callender. ...

In "Bleak House," Charles Dickens gave us Mrs. Jellyby, who took such a charitable interest in far-away Borrioboola-Gha that she failed to notice when her own wretched children were falling down the stairs. Cynthia Voigt [in "A Solitary Blue"] has created a contemporary version of Mrs. Jellyby, an equally appalling mother-philanthropist…. (p. 34)