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 give up.
Marilyn Kaye, in a review of "Dicey's Song," in The New York Times Book Review, March 6, 1983, p. 30.
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