The Great Gilly Hopkins
by Katherine Paterson | Children's Books | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0064402010 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0064402010 Global Overview for this book
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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
Product Description:
Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all. She has a county-wide reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. So when she's sent to live with the Trotters -- by far the strangest family yet -- Gilly decides to put her sharp mind to work. Before long she's devised an elaborate scheme to get her real mother to come rescue her.
But the rescue doesn't work out, and the great Gilly Hopkins is left thinking that maybe life with the Trotters wasn't so bad ...
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
Product Description:
Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all. She has a county-wide reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. So when she's sent to live with the Trotters -- by far the strangest family yet -- Gilly decides to put her sharp mind to work. Before long she's devised an elaborate scheme to get her real mother to come rescue her.
But the rescue doesn't work out, and the great Gilly Hopkins is left thinking that maybe life with the Trotters wasn't so bad ...
Journal Entry 2 by aussie-rose at Billy Baxter's Coffee Shop in Noarlunga Centre, South Australia Australia on Monday, January 3, 2005
Released on Tuesday, January 04, 2005 at about 10:30:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Billy Baxter's Coffee Shop in Noarlunga Centre, South Australia Australia.
RELEASE NOTES:
Passing this book on to grooble for her OBCZ :-)
RELEASE NOTES:
Passing this book on to grooble for her OBCZ :-)
I must not pick up anymore books at a meetup.
I must not pick up anymore books at a meetup.
I must not pick up anymore books at a meetup.
I must not pick up anymore books at a meetup.
I must not pick up anymore books at a meetup.
I must not pick up anymore books at a meetup.
I must not pick up anymore books at a meetup.
I must not pick up anymore books at a meetup.
I must not pick up anymore books at a meetup.
