The strong characterization of Homecoming … to which [Dicey's Song is a sequel is one of the most trenchant facets again, in this story of the four children who live with their grandmother on the Eastern Shore of Maryland…. [Dicey's Song] is much more cohesive than Homecoming, in part because the physical scope is narrower, in part because the author has so skillfully integrated the problems of the individual children in a story that is smoothly written. Dicey learns how to make friends, how to accept the fact that she is maturing physically, how to give and forgive, how to adjust—in a touching final episode—to the death of the mother whose recovery she had longed for. A rich and perceptive book.

Zena Sutherland, in a review of "Dicey's Song," in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Vol. 36, No. 2, October, 1982, p. 38.