The Great Gilly Hopkins (M Books)

The Great Gilly Hopkins (M Books)

By Katherine Paterson

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Grades 5 - 9Grades 3 - 6S4.633591

This timeless Newbery Honor Book from bestselling author Katherine Paterson about a wisecracking, ornary, completely unforgettable young heroine. Now a feature film starring Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, and Octavia Spencer!

Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's hated them all. She has a reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable, and that's the way she likes it. So when she's sent to live with the Trotters—by far the strangest family yet—she knows it's only a temporary problem.

Gilly decides to put her sharp mind to work and get out of there fast. She's determined to no longer be a foster kid. Before long she's devised an elaborate scheme to get her real mother to come rescue her. Unfortunately, the plan doesn't work out quite as she hoped it would...

Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN-13: 9780062422866
ISBN-10: 0062422863
Published on 1/5/2016
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256

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I'm reading this book for my book club, so far its pretty good...Gilly has one sassy, talking back, and rude attitude though

The Great Gilly Hopkins is about a girl that is an orphan and lives at foster homes. She is very naughty so she gets transferred to different foster homes. I didn't like this book but you might like it so try it out

I love The great Gilly Hopkins. It is so funny. It is very interesting, even sad. It is so described and I felt bad for Gilly. I recommend this book for all 5th grade.

I think that this book is very interesting. It is sad and funny. I recommend this book to all 5th graders.

I think that The Great Gilly Hopkins was a very interesting book. I was funny and sad. I recommend this book to all 5th grade.

5th grade or anywhere around