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 seriou...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Michele Slung
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 n...
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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews
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. W...
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Critical Essay by Ethel L. Heins
Fluent but never terse, the author compounds the mystery [that is the center of The Callender Papers] with a multitude of details and digressions, some of which borde...
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Critical Essay by Miriam Berkley
Uncovering what the past has hidden, Jean [in "The Callender Papers"] finds the present menacing. Thinking carefully, as she has been taught to do, does...
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Critical Essay by Gloria P. Rohmann
Written in a purposefully detached style, early sections of [A Solitary Blue] read like a journalistic case-study of child neglect. The confrontation with [Jeff...
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Critical Essay by Jane Langton
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...
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Critical Essay by Booklist
An eastern college for women of high ability is the setting for [Tell Me If the Lovers Are Losers], an unusual teenage novel about three disparate freshmen who come togethe...
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Critical Essay by School Library Journal
[Tell Me If the Lovers Are Losers] is heavy going…. After a sluggish start, during which the girls get acquainted (eventually they develop a strong bon...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
The strong characterization of Homecoming … to which [Dicey's Song is a sequel is one of the most trenchant facets again, in this story of the four chi...
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Here's a whole manual full of puzzles, games, and worksheets related to the novel! It includes: 1 unit word list and clues, 4 unit fill in the blank worksheets, 4 unit multiple choice worksheets, 4...
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