The Great Gilly Hopkins (M Books)
About this book
***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)
Reader Profile
3.9/5 · 24062 readers · 148 pages · ≈ 2 h 44 m · Easy
How long does it take to read The Great Gilly Hopkins (M Books)?
About ≈ 2 h 44 m — 148 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Great Gilly Hopkins (M Books)?
148 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Great Gilly Hopkins (M Books)?
It sits on the Young Adult, Fiction shelves.
Is The Great Gilly Hopkins (M Books) in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Where does The Great Gilly Hopkins (M Books) take place?
It takes place in 1978.
Who wrote The Great Gilly Hopkins (M Books)?
Katherine Paterson.