[bksvol-discuss] Re: two questions for the gang
- From: Shannon Curry <shannon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:18:45 -0600
Ah, I knew I should have kept reading.
I haven't read The Runner yet. I figure, the guy's going to die, I
don't really want to be depressed. *sigh* But I do need to finish the series.
At 12:35 PM 2/26/2010, Judy s. wrote:
Hi Jamie, the Cynthia Voigt books are called the "Tillerman" series,
and Carrie has added the numbers in. smile.
Aren't they great books? I'd recommend them to anyone. They're for
teens, and initially about a young teen who takes her younger
brothers and sister on a cross-country trip to find a living
relative who will take them in after their mentally ill mother dies.
Then the series branches out and follows now only them but also
friends the main character in the first book, Dicey, met or is
related to. The characters and situations are very 3-dimensional,
and complex, and the books don't "fix" everyone's lives in a pretty
box with a bow, either, in some instances. The book "The Runner,"
which is entirely a flashback of one generation in the series, for
example, ends with a main character dying in Vietnam. While written
recently, in the 1980s, they aren't about sex and drugs and aren't
full of foul language, like so many modern teen books are. On the
other hand they aren't in the Christian genre at all, either.
"Dicey's Song" won the Newbery medal, and "A Solitary Blue" was a
Newbery Honor book.
I hope you get a chance to read the entire series, Jamie. smile. I
think the third book, "A Solitary Blue," is my favorite.
Here's the order:
Tillerman 1: Homecoming
Tillerman 2: Dicey's Song
Tillerman 3: A Solitary Blue
Tillerman 4: Runner, The
Tillerman 5: Come a Stranger
Tillerman 6: Sons from Afar
Tillerman 7: Seventeen Against the Dealer
Judy s.
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