![]() His father, Horace, an academic who Jeff thinks of as “The Professor,” simply retreats to his study, leaving Jeff to make his own supper. ![]() She wants to fight for good causes and “make things better”: the world needs her more than he does. ![]() In the note, she explains that she has left, and instructs him not to be sad. The novel opens as Jeff, age 7, comes home from school to find a note from his mother, Melody. The protagonist of that book, Dicey Tillerman, appears towards the end of A Solitary Blue when Jeff befriends her at school. A Solitary Blue was awarded a Newbery Honor in 1984, and it is a companion piece to Voigt’s 1983 Newbery Medal-winning Dicey’s Song. Its protagonist, Jeff Greene, is abandoned by his free-spirit mother when he is seven years old: the novel examines the consequences of this abandonment as Jeff becomes a teenager. ![]() A Solitary Blue is a 1983 YA novel by Cynthia Voigt. ![]()
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