[In Homecoming the father of four children] had walked out long ago, and now Momma had left them in a parking lot and disappeared; en route to the Connecticut home of a great-aunt, the four children decided to walk there. Dicey, thirteen, takes charge of the younger three…. The writing style is good, the children strongly characterized if a bit precocious, and many of the incidents on the various stages of their journeys have drama (the six-year-old steals food when they are all hungry; a mercenary farmer tries to capture them, claiming they're his foster children; they are rescued by a circus owner and stay with the circus for a time) but the book is too long, too detailed, too uneven in pace to have real impact.