The Great Gilly Hopkins : A Newbery Honor Award Winner Hardcover - 1978
by Paterson, Katherine
- Used
Description
Details
- Title The Great Gilly Hopkins : A Newbery Honor Award Winner
- Author Paterson, Katherine
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 160
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Date 1978
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4779432-6
- ISBN 9780690038378 / 0690038372
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 800
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Foster home care
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 77027075
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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From the rear cover
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.
