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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780064402019
ISBN number: 0064402010
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 160
Printing Date: June 17, 1987
Publishing house: HarperCollins
Age index: Ages 9-12
Release Date: June 17, 1987
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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
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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
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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 the softest, the most cynical and the most sensitive. She's funny; really, genuinely funny; and I really did burst out laughing many times. I also burst out crying, and that has never happened to me before with any book. I was reading the last chapter through sobs, and even after I put it down, I couldn't stop crying for a while after.
If you have ever felt that even while you have a house, you lack a home... if you have ever felt unloved by your parents... if you have ever had to say goodbye to someone who truly did love you and accept you for yourself... if you have ever put on a smile to hide the tears... if you have ever acted tough so no one will hear you screaming inside... if you know what pain is... well, then you will understand Gilly. You won't just understand her, you will feel that she is you and you are her. You will cry for her, you will want the same things she wants, and you will come to understand yourself through understanding her.
This book will take you on a journey of the self. It is one of those very few, very special books that can be read by a ten-year-old and a ninety-year-old and appreciated by both. Whatever age you are, whatever stage of life you are in, if you know what Trotter means when she says that "life is tough"... read this book. You will cry, yes, but you probably needed a good cry anyway, and you will also be changed.
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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 recommend this book.
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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 significant and moving. The characters and situation and ending is very realistic and moving. Wonderful and engaging book. Grade: A
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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 planning to come rescue her any day now.
However, Gilly's newest foster mother, Trotter, isn't so easily pushed away. She's used to difficult children, and she's determined to get through to Gilly -- who, in turn, is repulsed by her large size, by quiet little foster brother William Ernest, and by Mr. Randolph, the elderly blind neighbor who eats with the family each night.
Just when Gilly's finally beginning to accept Trotter's home as her own, fate intervenes, and once again, Gilly's world is turned upside down.
Some readers reject this book, as Gilly is something of a racist, and there is a particular scene where she writes a nasty poem to her sixth-grade teacher, who is black. However, I disagree with banning it -- I feel that Gilly's behavior is on target with her upbringing and inner turmoil. Paterson isn't throwing in racist situations gratuitously, but rather using them as fodder for Gilly's personal development -- and, in fact, showing readers the world as it really is. It's up to Gilly, and everyone, to learn how to deal with prejudices and establish a strong sense of self.
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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 very 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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