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A complete lesson plan by Teacher's Pet. For Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7. This lesson plan is sold separately and is not included with any subscription or study pack.

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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 Song. She is recognized as an accomplished storytelle...

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, a...

ATHALYA BRENNER and CAROLE R. FONTAINE (eds.), The Song of Songs (Feminist Companion to the Bible 216; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000). Pp. 211. Paper 16.45, $28.50. This second volume on the Song of Songs in the Feminist Companion series well illustrates important...

Song of Songs. By Richard S. Hess. Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005, 285 pp., $29.99. This is the first commentary published in a new series from Baker on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms edited...

[A Solitary Blue] is the story of Jeff Greene, the guitar-playing high school boy Dicey Tillerman meets in Dicey's Song (1982)—but the connection isn't made until near the end. The story begins, matter-of-factly but with Kramer vs. Kramer pathos, when Jeff at seven finds his mother Melody's note explaining that she loves him but had to leave him to help the world's less fortunate and "make things better." Jeff is left with his stiff, expressionless father...

[With Dicey's Song, Cynthia Voigt] proves that heroines of young adult fiction can be mature, considerate, even exemplary, and still seem quite real. Dicey Tillerman, the heroine of Dicey's Song, is not just good, she is strong, like a birch sapling, and it is Voigt's skill in convincing us of that strength that makes her seem so real. (p. 8) Of course the journey [that began in Homecoming] isn't over once Gram's house has been reached. Dicey still must play the leader, ma...

Mrs. Voigt has a nice way with language, blunt, taut and precise. She uses small but powerful images that rise above the ordinary yet still remain within the grasp of a juvenile audience. She keeps her distance and sustains an objectivity that prevents the story from falling into melodrama. "Dicey's Song" … is a series of movements and contrasts. But under it all there's a goal of harmony that's eventually realized as Dicey learns what to reach out for and what to g...