<P> Dicey plans to leave Eunice's house alone, in search of a better home for her family with her grandmother, who lives in Crisfield, Maryland . Although she had only planned to visit her, the other Tillerman children sneak away from school to join her . The Tillerman family finds itself on the road again in search of a home; this ends the first part of the novel . </P> <P> The second journey, like the first, is hard and fraught with danger . Attempting to earn money by picking tomatoes, the children find themselves nearly captured by their employer who has apparently taken an interest in Maybeth . In an attempt to escape, the children are helped by a traveling circus who drive the children to Crisfield . </P> <P> Abigail Tillerman, the children's grandmother, lives alone on a run - down farm . She tells Dicey that the children cannot live there and that she can shelter them for only one night . However, Dicey realizes that the farm would be good for her family, and that they have nowhere else to go . She and her family try to win their grandmother over by doing work around the farm . Dicey learns that her grandmother is frightened of becoming emotionally attached to the Tillerman children, in case she were to lose them as she lost her own children . Mrs. Tillerman confesses to Dicey that she bears the pain of this, and fears repeating the same failures . </P> <P> Eventually, Mrs. Tillerman comes to the realization that besides caring deeply for the four children, she can and will offer them a permanent home, despite the emotional and financial fears she has . The novel ends with Dicey feeling that she and her family have come home at last . </P>

How many pages are in homecoming by cynthia voigt