Come a Stranger (The Tillerman Series #5)

school & library binding, 352 pages

English language

Published Oct. 7, 1999 by Tandem Library.

ISBN:
978-0-8335-0805-8
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OCLC Number:
228214881

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reviewed Come a Stranger by Cynthia Voigt (Tillerman Cycle, #5)

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Cynthia Voigt is one of my favorite authors. Her coming-of-age stories affected me very much as a teenager (especially A Solitary Blue, since I related to Jeff so much). All her characters feel like fully realized people, and incredibly alive. Many of the people who've read her will say that Dicey, Jeff and Mina start to feel like old friends to them and I've had the same experience.

Come A Stranger is an interesting book in the Tillerman Cycle, since it deals so directly with race and racism, while the current consensus is that Black issues should really only be written about by Black authors. From my perspective, Voigt seems like one of the very few writers with the self-awareness and emotional intelligence to be able to write about the identity struggles of a young, Black girl. (I'm really, really interested in reading the opinion of a Black person on …

Subjects

  • General
  • Children: Grades 3-4
  • Clergy
  • Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction
  • Afro-Americans
  • Fiction