The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson Paperback Book

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Author: Katherine Paterson

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: HarperTrophy

Published: Jun 1987

Genre: Children & Young Adults Fiction - Social Issues - Adolescence

Retail Price: $6.99

Ages: 10 - UP

Pages: 148

Synopsis

Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all. She has a county-wide reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. So when she's sent to live with the Trotters -- by far the strangest family yet -- Gilly decides to put her sharp 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, and the great Gilly Hopkins is left thinking that maybe life with the Trotters wasn't so bad ...

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