I'm five books ahead of schedule, but once I'd picked up Homecoming I couldn't put it down. It's an adventure, a bit of a mystery, a travel tale and a character piece all at once. If I'd read it as a kid, I'd have immediately rushed out to buy a copy for myself and start over. I might even do that now.
(That's a bit of poetic license. As a kid, I couldn't afford to rush out and buy anything. But I'd check it out of the library over and over again, reading until the edges were fuzzing, pages were falling out, and I had huge swathes memorized.)
Four kids, abandoned in a mall parking lot with eleven dollars and fifty cents, set out to find their Aunt Cilla. There's no planes, trains, and automobiles here--there's footpower, determination and courage. It was like a 1970s remake of The Boxcar Children.
The ending was what turned this from 4 to 5 stars--there was no sugar-coated Disney "let's all have a big dance party" ending. But there was an ending. And six other books in the series which I must now read. Other than that, I'm scared to tell you anything. I started the book knowing nothing, absolutely nothing, about it. And I recommend you do, too.
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