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| AUTHOR: | Cynthia Voigt |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Simon Pulse |
| ISBN: | 068980444X |
| TYPE: | Afro-Americans, Children's Books - Young Adult, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9), Clergy, Fiction, General, Juvenile Fiction / General |
| MEDIA: | Mass Market Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of COME A STRANGER
Voigt is probably one of the finest young adult writers... Wilhemina Smiths (Mina), wants to dance. She's got liveliness, intelligence, zest for life, and determination; but she is also black. Voigt produces her usual not-out of the ordinary kaleidoscope of REAL people...and this is precisely what makes this book out of the ordinary. She presents Mina's emotions beautifully and level-headedly: her love of ballet, her keenness, her crush on/fascination with Tamer Shipp, her relationship with Dicey. The concluding sentences of the book are wonderfully ambiguous (at least a little). There's disappointment, triumph... It's just great.
Characters and scenes from the other books in the Tillerman Cycle overlap and are introduced through her own perspective. I'd recommend this book far more than "The Glory Field", and feel that it lived up to its potential and even surpassed my expectations.
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Voight, no Stranger to good writing
What an amazing novel! Cynthia Voight proved her talent as an author with HOMECOMING, DICEY'S SONG, and ON FORTUNE'S WHEEL, but she proves herself to have amazing talent at understanding people. This book is told from the point of a black woman born and raised in Maryland. Though Voight is a white woman, her power of empathy, creates a realistic telling of the story in a way that crosses all race barriers. Voight reaches into her character Mina and retreives what counts; not color, not hardships, but soul. In expounding on the soul of her character, she deftly weaves through the events and people that have shaped Mina's life. She creates a wonderful compliment to the novel DICEY'S SONG and a excellent addition to the Tillerman saga. This novel reminds me vauguely of a phone conversation between Dicey and Mina in which we finally here Mina's end of the story. Details that Dicey overlooks, Mina fills in and vice versa. I would recommend this if you've enjoyed other novels in the Tllerman saga, and also as a jumping off point into the series. Please read it... I know you'll enjoy it.
GREAT BOOK
This book was really great!*!*! I was hooked from the beginning to the end. I was quezey all through the book. Would they survive with less than 20 bucks? Will they ever find their mother? read the book to find out and you won't be sorry.!!