Author: Katherine Paterson
Title: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Publisher: Harper Trophy
Date: 1978
Reading Level: 10+
Number of Pages: 148
Genre: Fiction
Title: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Publisher: Harper Trophy
Date: 1978
Reading Level: 10+
Number of Pages: 148
Genre: Fiction
Summary of plot: Gilly is one tough kid. She intends to destroy every one of her foster mothers so she can live with her mysterious real mother. She meets her match in Mrs. Trotter, an overweight, uneducated woman who's only weapon is total love for her foster kids. In the end she ends up going to go an look for her mother. Her mother come and she isn't what Gilly was looking for and so Gilly returns to her true home at Mrs. Trotters house with her foster brother and the blind man next door.
Readers Reaction: I loved this book!!! I thought that she was clever and that she had some great stories to tell and do.
Potential Problems: Raceism, occasional religious views come up
Recommendation: to reluctant readers
Readers Reaction: I loved this book!!! I thought that she was clever and that she had some great stories to tell and do.
Potential Problems: Raceism, occasional religious views come up
Recommendation: to reluctant readers
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