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Part 1: Chapters 1-3

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Voigt, Cynthia. Homecoming. Ballantine Books, 1981. Paperback.

· In Part 1, Chapter 1, a woman tells her children to be good and obey Dicey, and she walks away from their car in a parking lot in Peewauket, Connecticut.

· Dicey, who is 13, is the oldest.

· Dicey’s siblings ask her why they are stopped.

· James is ten, Maybeth is nine, and Sammy is six.

· Dicey has no idea why they are stopped there.

· Their father left them years ago, and their mother recently lost her job.

· They were on their way from the rundown house they lived in on the beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and going to their mother’s aunt Cilla’s house in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

· The address of their aunt is on each of their paper sacks that hold their clothes.

· Dicey has memorized the...

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