Tillerman Series – serie

The second book in Cynthia Voigt’s acclaimed Tillerman Series, about Dicey Tillerman and her family.Fierce, solitary, brave and clever, Dicey Tillerman is growing up. Having safely brought her brothers and sister two hundred miles to Gram, their grandmother (the story of Homecoming), now she is having to adjust to ordinary life in school and at home. She must deal with grief at the discovery of her mother’s whereabouts and death, endless worrying about her family, burgeoning adolescence, friendships worth fighting for, and her all-encompassing desire to build and sail boats.

The fifth book in Cynthia Voigt’s acclaimed Tillerman Series, Mina Smiths, black daughter of the local minister, must learn to accept herself.Mina Smiths, a schoolfriend of Dicey Tillerman’s, is expelled from summer dance school. Is it because she’s black? Overwhelmed with the misery of failure and rejection, she turns to Tamer Shipp, the temporary minister at her father’s church – he understands her feelings, even her feelings about him…A strong story about identity and self-belief, and the importance of following your heart.

The seventh and final book in Cynthia Voigt’s acclaimed Tillerman Series, about Dicey Tillerman and her family, where Dicey enters adulthood, learning life’s lessons the hard way.Dicey Tillerman knows you don’t get what you want just by wanting it. She’s prepared to work harder than she has ever done before to earn her living as a boat-builder. But running a business proves to be tougher than she could have imagined. So when a drifter turns up at her shop offering help for free – Dicey accepts. But does she trust him too much?A moving tale that pulls no punches, Seventeen Against the Dealer follows characters introduced in Book One of the Tillerman Series, Homecoming, now a Collins Modern Classic.