Age
10-13
Grade
5-6
Katherine Paterson
The Great Gilly Hopkins
School & Library Binding
(Turtleback Books April 13, 2004)
, Bound for Schools & Libraries ed. Edition
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. This Newbery Honor Book from bestselling author Katherine Paterson will simultaneously tug on the heartstrings and cause laugh-out-loud laughter. Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked 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...
- ISBN
- 0881039225 / 9780881039221
- Pages
- 192
- Weight
- 6.9 oz.
- Dimensions
- 5.54 x 0.63 in.
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