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Gilly Hopkins is a tough operator – she’s super-cool and super-intelligent. And Gilly’s not going to be ‘had’ by anyone: teacher, social worker or foster parent. All she wants is a reunion with her beautiful, long-lost mother. But just when it appears her dream might come true, things no longer seem quite so clear cut ...
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The arrogant, bitter heroine of this moving story is a wisecracking, gum-chewing kid who has been shuttled from one foster home to another. . . . [She is portrayed] with warmth and wit, in a story filled with love and compassion. --CE"
This perceptive story draws strength from its finely delineated characters and rich, moving narrative. --ALA Booklist"
15 Banned Books Every Tween and Teen Should Read--Brightly.com
"The arrogant, bitter heroine of this moving story is a wisecracking, gum-chewing kid who has been shuttled from one foster home to another. . . . [She is portrayed] with warmth and wit, in a story filled with love and compassion."--CE
"This perceptive story draws strength from its finely delineated characters and rich, moving narrative."--ALA Booklist
-The arrogant, bitter heroine of this moving story is a wisecracking, gum-chewing kid who has been shuttled from one foster home to another. . . . [She is portrayed] with warmth and wit, in a story filled with love and compassion.---CE
-This perceptive story draws strength from its finely delineated characters and rich, moving narrative.---ALA Booklist
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This perceptive story draws strength from its finely delineated characters and rich, moving narrative. --ALA Booklist"
15 Banned Books Every Tween and Teen Should Read--Brightly.com
"The arrogant, bitter heroine of this moving story is a wisecracking, gum-chewing kid who has been shuttled from one foster home to another. . . . [She is portrayed] with warmth and wit, in a story filled with love and compassion."--CE
"This perceptive story draws strength from its finely delineated characters and rich, moving narrative."--ALA Booklist
-The arrogant, bitter heroine of this moving story is a wisecracking, gum-chewing kid who has been shuttled from one foster home to another. . . . [She is portrayed] with warmth and wit, in a story filled with love and compassion.---CE
-This perceptive story draws strength from its finely delineated characters and rich, moving narrative.---ALA Booklist
At eleven, Gilly is nobody's real kid. If only she could find her beautiful mother, Courtney, and live with her instead of in the ugly foster home where she has just been placed! How could she, the great Gilly Hopkins, known throughout the county for her brilliance and unmanageability, be expected to tolerate Maime Trotter, the fat, nearly illiterate widow who is now her guardian? Or for that matter, the freaky seven-year-old boy and the shrunken blind black man who are also considered part of the bizarre "family"? Even cool Miss Harris, her teacher, is a shock to her.
Gutsy Gilly is both poignant and comic as, behind her best barracuda smile, she schemes against them and everyone else who tries to be friendly. The reader will cheer for her as she copes with the longings and terrors of always being a foster child.
Katherine Paterson, winner of the 1978 Newbery Medal for Bridge to Terabithia and of the 1977 National Book Award for The Master Puppeteer, again reaches across boundaries with her wit, compassion, and love, and here creates an immensely engaging story about a child's desperate search for a place to call home.
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- PublisherPuffin
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0140313028
- ISBN 13 9780140313024
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages144
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