Homecoming : HarperCollins Children’s Classics

A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)The iconic start to the timeless Newbery-winning series from Cynthia VoigtDicey began to panic. The four of them had been waiting in the car for hours now. Why wasnt their mother back? Why had she just walked off like that? What would they do if she never came back?Dicey had known for a while that something was not right with her mother. There wasnt anything she could put her finger on but when Mamma said goodbye to them that day in the supermarket car park Dicey knew that she wasnt coming back. And so Dicey as the eldest plans to lead the three others halfway across America to their aunt on foot. And the story of how they reached their destination and what they found there is one of the most gripping in childrens literature; it is the story of one childs courage against impossible odds and of a determination to find a home that never lets up. Homecoming the first in a series of seven wonderful novels is a must for any reader young or old.