The Great Gilly Hopkins

by Katherine Paterson | Children's Books |
ISBN: 0064402010 Global Overview for this book
Registered by raralovestoread of Ponchatoula, Louisiana USA on 1/26/2016
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Journal Entry 1 by raralovestoread from Ponchatoula, Louisiana USA on Tuesday, January 26, 2016
From the back cover:

Eleven-year-old Gilly Hopkins is famous for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. None of her foster homes has been able to tame her yet.

So when Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters - by far the strangest foster family of all - she decides to put her brilliant mind to work. What she needs is a plan that will make her real mother rescue her so she can stop being a foster child once and for all.

But the rescue doesn't work out quite the way Gilly planned....

Journal Entry 2 by raralovestoread at Ponchatoula, Louisiana USA on Tuesday, January 26, 2016
I enjoyed this book for the most part. The characters were vibrant ones. Gilly's language sometimes bothered me, but considering what her character had been through in trying to find a family, I suppose it's understandable. Gilly also started out with a racist viewpoint, but by the end of the story that had changed. Ultimately I think this story is about Gilly's longing for a family that loves her. This is a 1979 Newbery Honor book.

Journal Entry 3 by raralovestoread at Little Free Library in Ponchatoula, Louisiana USA on Sunday, October 20, 2019

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