Author/authors: Cynthia Voigt
Type of emotional/crisis issues addressed: Parent Mental Illness
Year of publication: 2003
Publisher: Aladdin
ISBN#:978-0689863622
Target age level: Junior High
# of pages: 380
Quality of illustrations: N/A
Brief summary: In this sequel to Homecoming, Dicey, age 13, and her younger siblings finally reach their grandmother’s home after traveling many months. Adjusting to living with their unconventional grandmother in a rural Maryland town is difficult, but Dicey and her siblings face additional challenges: Their mother, who is mentally ill, has been institutionalized and their grandmother wants to adopt them; James wants to fit in with his peers; Sammy is getting into fights at school; Maybeth isn’t reading on grade level; and Dicey has to learn to let go and reach out to others.
Activity: Have students discuss what Gram meant when she said that the tree was like a family. Next have students draw a family tree with their family members' names on the branches. At the bottom of the tree have them write or draw pictures of what holds their family together during hard times.
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