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A lovely YA read. 🩶🧡🩶

Returned home after 6 weeks overseas traveling to my wonderful husband and daughters. I was ugly crying at the airport I was so happy to see them. And then seeing all this #LitsyLove well my cup overfloweth. Will read today and reply soon.

This was a solid YA story! It dragged a bit in the beginning, but really picked up at the end. It would make an awesome movie. If you like books focused on sibling relationships, I would for sure recommend it! I‘m not sure I loved it enough to continue on with the entire series, but I may end up coming back to it later on.

First book done for #bookspinbingo! This is also my regular #bookspin book. I‘ve loved this story of siblings trying to find a home since my mom @AmyK1 had me read it as a middle schooler, and I think I always will!

#7days7books Day 6
We present here 7 books that will remain in our minds, because they touched us so much, changed us. No further comments needed!

I love these two so much and read them often. I‘m working through the rest of the series, and while it‘s good, nothing so far can match the magic in these two.

@arlenefinnigan want to join the fun?

If I had to DTR with the book we‘re talking about on this week‘s episode of my podcast, our status would definitely be “it‘s complicated.” Tune in to hear me and Kelly Jensen (of Book Riot!) discuss Cynthia Voigt‘s Homecoming, the first book in the Tillerman Cycle. We talk about birth order, mental health, religion, circus performers, cold hot dogs, and so much more. Link to listen in bio!

#letstravelaugust day 3! This was the only thinking I Thoughts of for #camping (well, not the only thing—I just don‘t own a copy of the last Harry Potter book!)

Always a good read. Dicey‘s grit and resourcefulness, and the way she learns to accept flaws (her own as well as others) and learn from mistakes, make her a truly compelling character.

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4.5/5⭐ The fascination w/ kids surviving on their own followed me since I 1st read it in elementary school. The challenges the kids face are engrossing & compelling. I adore the consistent theme of defining & finding home. It all felt very real: Dicey's efforts to keep them together, the siblings' relationships, the characters' individual complexities. I fell into the characters & world so that every time I continued it felt like coming home.

Thank you to @MinDea and @Robothugs for this awesome #FavoriteBookGiveaway !
The tagged book is really what opened my eyes/imagination to reading when I was younger. I love imagining the situations that the main character came across when she was trying to protect herself and her siblings as runaways!

Can't tell you how many times I've read this story , and checked it out from library when i was younger. I was obsessed with this book it made me sad and i still can't forget the mall scene, it still haunts me.😢 this is a very good book though 5 stars for me💙 and it will always be a favorite of mine!

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This is one of the books I was required to read in 6th grade — I loved it! And read all the others in the series 😊

#yawednesday

My current read, about four siblings who take off on foot to find the aunt they never met after their mother abandons them in a parking lot.

I remember borrowing this book from the library years ago and returning without completing it because of lack of time! I also remember enjoying this book. And then recently I just happened to come across this beautiful cover at an online bookstore and I had to buy it!😍😍😍 I will finally be completing this book.💝💝

I snagged this pic off Bing since I don't have my paperback copy anymore. I don't know what happened to it, but I expect it got misplaced or forgotten during a move when I was 15. 😭This is the same cover mine had, however, and it was just as well loved. I used to read this book all the time. Probably the one non-little kid book that I ever physically (as opposed to audiobook) read repeatedly growing up. I must reread this. #childhoodrereads

I used to read this every summer. It has been a few years now and wow does this book make me more anxious now that I am an adult who is responsible for children. Still it is so so so good. Love the characters love the details. Love it.

Dicey, her brothers & sister are abandoned by their mother in a car in a mall parking lot. They were on their way to an aunt's house, so they decide to keep going on their own, hoping that this unknown relative will take them in & help them find their mother. Dicey leads them on a long journey through towns, state parks, & rivers, sleeping off the road & out of sight.
An excellent yarn; I was rooting for Dicey and her little family from Page One.

Taking it back to middle school days here. My #favoritebookishsiblings still have to be the Tillermans. #Augustphotochallenge

This was a required read during my elementary days and it turned out to be one of my favorites! I Love the Tillerman four and I feel I'm due for a re-read.