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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780064402019
ISBN: 0064402010
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 160
Publication Date: June 17, 1987
Publisher: HarperCollins
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: June 17, 1987
Sales Rank: 39789
Studio: HarperCollins
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One tough cookie
Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all intensely. She has a county-wide reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmangable.
So when she's sent to live with the Trotters--by far the strangest family yet--Gilly decides to put her brilliant mind to work. Before long she's devised an elaborate scheme to get her real mother to come "rescue" her.
But the rescue doens't work out quite the way she planned. And when the time comes for her to go, the great Gilly Hopkins is left thinking that maybe life with the Trotters wasn't so bad after all....
1979 Newbery Honor Book
Winner, 1979 National Book Award for Children's Literature
Notable Children's Books of 1978 (ALA)
1979 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
"Best of the Best" Children's Books 1966–1978 (SLJ)
1979 Christopher Award
1979 Jane Addams Award Honor Book
1980–81 Children's Choice Award (Iowa)
1981 Georgia Children's Book Award
1981 Garden State Children's Book Award (New Jersey Library Association)
1980–81 Children's Book Award (Massachusetts)
1981 William Allen White Children's Book Award
NY Public Library Books and Recordings 1978
Amazon.com Review:
Gilly Hopkins is a determined-to-be-unpleasant 11-year-old foster kid who the reader can't help but like by the end. Gilly has been in the foster system all her life, and she dreams of getting back to her (as she imagines) wonderful mother. (The mother makes these longings worse by writing the occasional letter.) Gilly is all the more determined to leave after she's placed in a new foster home with a "gross guardian and a freaky kid." But she soon learns about illusions--the hard way. This Newbery Honor Book manages to treat a somewhat grim, and definitely grown-up theme with love and humor, making it a terrific read for a young reader who's ready to learn that "happy" and "ending" don't always go together. (Ages 9 to 12) --Richard Farr
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Rarely, if ever, have I seen a book about an eleven-year-old child that I would consider great literature. Rarely have I read a book about an eleven-year-old child multiple times, year after year after year, as I grow further and further past eleven, and laughed and cried out loud each time.
This book is a work of art. It is everything a book should be. Katherine Paterson has created a most remarkable character in Gilly Hopkins: she is someone who can be appreciated by the toughest and ... Read More
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My 11-year old recommended this book. She had read it at school. So we read it together. We loved it! The story is fascinating and the characters are wonderful. It's the story of an 11 or 12 year-old girl who has become hardened and deceitful because of her experiences as a foster child that is moved around to different families. She's white and has grown up racist ... but this changes ... not in a sudden epiphany (how rare those are!) ... her feelings and behavior change slowly ... organically. I highly ... Read More
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Gilly Hopkins is a sixth grade foster child on her way to her new home after being abandoned by one and expelled from the other for bad behavior. A very angry little girl, Gilly just thinks of ways to hurt her foster mother, her timid foster brother, and her strict teacher. Gilly dreams of her mother coming to save her and to have a permanent home. The story is a bit dated (Gilly's mom was a flower child and she's quite tame for a foster child), but the message and the portrayal of such a child is still very ... Read More
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Eleven-year-old Galadriel "Gilly" Hopkins has been shuffled from foster home to foster home since she was three years old. Every time she becomes used to a new family, they find a reason to get rid of her. And so, to protect herself against the hurt, Gilly's decided to be awful to everyone. So what if she doesn't have friends? Gilly's decided that pushing everyone away from the onset is the only way to survive...that, and refuse to give up the idea that the beautiful mother she last saw as a toddler is actually ... Read More
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....thats why I like this book. Everything we do isn't always happily ever after sometimes its just BLAH. You get pulled into this book and its hard to put it down. Even though its for young readers I still enjoy this book to this day. I remember my first time reading it and I still had a problem with having to stop.... must finish reading it. Katherine Paterson is a good author. Next stop Bridge to Terabithia.......*grin* Great Book!
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