Title: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Author: Katherine Paterson
Publisher:
Scholastic Year: 1995 c1978
ISBN: 0-590-61389-8
Genre: Realistic
Fiction
This book is for Ages:
9-13
Awards:
Newbery Honor Book
AR Points: 5.0
Subjects/Themes: Family
Life/Orphans
Plot Summary: 11-year-old Gilly Hopkins is on her way to
her third foster home. She knows the
social worker must be telling her mother all kinds of lies to keep her mother
from coming to get her. Gilly is
determined to contact her mother so she can escape from this ugly dirty foster
home. Her new foster mother Mamie
Trotter is a huge hippopotamus woman and William Earnest is a freaky kid who is
afraid of everything. Gilly plans her
escape but is slowly drawn into this strange family. When rescue finally comes, it’s not quite
what Gilly expected.
Review: Did you ever feel like life was unfair. So does Gilly. Sometimes she handles things well and
sometimes not. But she does her best to
take care of herself. This is a moving
story about family, love, and the hardships of real life.
If you like this book
you may also like: Holes, by Louis Sachar The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
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