New York : Atheneum, c1981
At thirteen years-old, Dicey is old enough to see that there is something wrong with her mother. Poverty and hardship have chipped away at her sanity. Her worst fears are confirmed when, en route to visit an aunt they've never met, her mother leaves her and three siblings in a car while she goes to the supermarket, and they don’t see her again. Armed with almost no money, but steely inner strength, a sharp mind and a glimmer of hope, Dicey must do what seems impossible to keep her family together and walks them across America, into the unknown.
Set in the early eighties, this book reads well as a stand-alone
novel but was extended into a cycle of
seven books for those who
wish to keep reading.
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