num_pages: 160
description: This timeless Newbery Honor Book from bestselling author Katherine Paterson about a wisecracking, ornary, completely unforgettable young heroine. Now a feature film starring Kathy Bates, Glenn Close, and Octavia Spencer! Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's hated 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...
language: English
title: The Great Gilly Hopkins
titlecomplete: The Great Gilly Hopkins
characters: Galadriel Hopkins, William Ernest Teague, Maime Trotter
genres: Classics, Banned Books, Childrens, Juvenile, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Family, Fostering, Fiction, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 22469
places: Maryland, Virginia
awards: awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: National Book Award
category: Children's Literature, awardedAt: 284025600000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Massachusetts Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: Iowa Children's Choice Award, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Intermediate, awardedAt: 347184000000
name: William Allen White Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Children's Books (Paperback)
publisher: HarperCollins