![]() The kids are able to earn a bit more money carrying people's groceries to their cars and they keep moving on. Dirty, tired, abandoned street urchins, yes thieves, no. Sammy also tries his hand at stealing food, but Dicey won't have it-Tillermans aren't thieves, thank you very much. ![]() At Rockland State Park, where they stay a few days, the kids fish and meet up with Louis and Edie, two teenage runaways. The kids walk for days, sleep outside, and go to bed with empty tummies as their money runs low. ![]() Turns out walking nearly eighty miles with a thirteen, ten, nine, and six-year-old, isn't as easy as it sounds. They have about seven dollars in their pocket and they can probably walk there in a few days. She decides that her siblings should keep going to Bridgeport because that's what Momma wanted. This leaves thirteen-year-old Dicey in charge. So maybe it's not a complete surprise when Momma stops at a mall in the middle of Connecticut and tells the kids to wait in the car… and then never comes back. Times have been tough and Momma Tillerman has just been acting weird lately. There, they're hoping to get help from their rich Aunt Cilla. The Tillerman children-Dicey, James, Maybeth, and Sammy-are on a car trip with their mother heading from Provincetown, Massachusetts to Bridgeport, Connecticut. ![]()
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