Jeff’s mother, who deserted the family years before, reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his father, a gap that only truth, love, and friendship can heal.

A Newbery Honor-winning installment of the Voigt’s classic Tillerman series is repackaged. Jeff Greene’s mother, who deserted the family years before, re-enters his life and widens the gap between Jeff…

Originally published under the title: The wings of a falcon. New York: Scholastic, 1993.

Fans of Voigt’s beloved Tillerman cycle know that the memory of Dicey’s uncle Bullet casts a long shadow over the family. The Runner is Bullet’s story, as involving and emotionally…

Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

Dicey Tillerman is growing up. Having safely brought her brothers and sister two hundred miles to their grandmother (the story of Homecoming), now she is having to adjust to ordinary…

In Voigt’s first novel–a National Book Award Honor Book and the introduction to her Tillerman saga–the four Tillerman children, abandoned by their emotionally ill mother, travel on foot from New…

An examination of personal development, maturation and rites of passage in children’s literature, this title surveys the theme across a number of genres and analyses the work of key writers…