Many kids in our society are being put on the streets. Lack of love within their family is lost and they must find heir own way to survive. In Homecoming, there are four kids left in the parking lot of a shopping center. All they were told was that they were to listen to their older sister, Dicey.
             Homecoming was written by Cynthia Voigt. It was published by Ballantine Books and was copyrighted in 1981, which had three editions. First, Fawcett Juniper Edition: May 1982, First Ballantine Books Edition: 1983, and the Thirty-second Printing: September 1993.
             Cynthia Voigt was born 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the second child of four. Voigt was described as a good student who liked to read a lot. She received her Bachelor's Degree from Smith College in 1963. She received her Graduate Degree from Christian Brothers College. Voigt received her teaching certificate from Christian Brothers College. In 1974, she married Walter Voigt. She and Walter moved to Annapolis where she taught high school English. She and her family spent their summers off the Eastern Shore of Maryland, on Philpots Island, just off Matapeake. Voigt inhabits the traditions of an ocean shorewoman. She enjoys crabbing, boating, and swimming. Her first book was Homecoming and the following two years, she won the Newbery Medal for Dicey's Song. Cynthia Voigt currently resides in Deer Isle, Maine.
             Other books that Cynthia Voigt has written are Dicey's Song, Tell Me if the Lovers are the Losers, A Solitary Blue, The Calendar Paper, Building Blocks, The Runner, Jackaroo, Come a Stranger, Izzy Willy-Nilly, Sons From Afar, Trees by Leaf, Seventeen Against the Dealer, On Fortune's Wheel, The Vandermark Mummy, David and Jonathon, Orle, The Wings of a Falcon, When she Hollers, and Bad Girls.
             Dicey is the oldest kid of the Tillermans and the one that must lead the family to Aunt Cilla's house. She has a lot of confidence on their jour...