The Great Gilly Hopkins

Description

***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 unmanagable. 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 doesn'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...** ***Literary Awards:*** Newbery Medal Nominee (1979), National Book Award for Children's Literature (1979), Jane Addams Children's Book Award Nominee (1979), Massachusetts Children's Book Award (1981), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1980) Iowa Children's Choice Award (1981), California Young Readers Medal Nominee for Intermediate (1981), William Allen White Children's Book Award (1981), National Book Award Finalist for Children's Books (Paperback) (1980)

First Sentence

"GILLY" said Miss Ellis with a shake of her long blonde hair toward the passenger in the back seat.

Excerpt

"GILLY" said Miss Ellis with a shake of her long blonde hair toward the passenger in the back seat.

Description

An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly

Subjects

Other Editions

• The Great Gilly Hopkins: Trophy NewberryPaperbackHarper Trophy a div. of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.1987-01-01
• The Great Gilly HopkinsGollancz1979-01-01
• The Great Gilly HopkinsUnknown BindingPerfection Learning Prebound1982-09-01
• The Great Gilly HopkinsAvon Books1983-10-01
• The greatGilly HopkinsMacmillan Education1985-01-01
• La gran Gilly HopkinsSalvat1987-01-01