Title: The Great Gilly Hopkins (M Books)
First published: April 25, 1985
Description: ***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)
Subjects: Children, Children's, Kid's, Tween, Young adult, Adolescence, Coming of Age, Juvenile, Fiction, Literature, Stories, Books, Chapter, Family, Alternative, Orphans, Foster, Homes, Girls & Women, Social Themes, Newbery Honor, Children's fiction, Foster home care, fiction, Foster home care, Juvenile fiction, Accelerated Reader, Large type books, Fiction, general, Foster Children, Brats, Hogares adoptivos, Novela, Petroleum, Hydrocarbons
Time periods: 1978