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Brash foster-kid tale a great choice for reluctant readers. Read Common Sense Media's The Great Gilly Hopkins review, age rating, and parents guide.
THE GREAT GILLY HOPKINS. by Katherine Paterson ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1978. bookshelf. shop now. Paterson's bright eleven-year-old has a lot in common with: other foster children we've met in fiction: sulky, surface-tough, perversely set on being "hard to manage," determined after several rejections never to accept an overture, and still ...
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Mar 29, 1978 · 22,750 ratings1,526 reviews. Watch out world! The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry, lonely, and hurting for so long that's she's always ready for a fight. Be on the lookout for her best barracuda smile, the one she saves for well-meaning social workers. Watch out for her most fearful look, a cross ...
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Oct 6, 2016 · The Great Gilly Hopkins. Rating: PG for thematic material and language. Run time: 97 Minutes U.S. Release Date: October 7, 2016 (In Theaters and On Demand) Synopsis: A feisty foster kid’s outrageous scheme to be reunited with her birth mother has unintended consequences in The Great Gilly Hopkins, an entertaining film for the entire family ...
- Bianca Schulze
Feb 17, 2016 · The Great Gilly Hopkins won both the National Book Award and a Newbery honor in 1979, and was almost immediately shuffled on to numerous “banned books” lists. That is, the book was never actually banned, but some people, mostly parents, raised objections.
Jan 1, 2013 · Now she has to protect W.E. from Gilly – and Gilly from herself – while the girl tries lying, stealing, disruptive behavior, and other sophisticated techniques to escape from the foster-care system and get her estranged mother – an unwed flower child on the West Coast – to come back for her.
The Great Gilly Hopkins is a 1978 realistic children's novel by Katherine Paterson. It won the U.S. National Book Award in 1979. [2] In 2012 it was ranked number 63 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal – the third of three books by Paterson in the top 100.
