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The Great Gilly Hopkins

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4 out of 5
Based on 2,589 Ratings and 492 Reviews

Book Description
Gilly Hopkins is a determined-to-be-unpleasant 11-year-old foster kid who the reader can't help but like by the end. Gilly has been in the foster system all her life, and she dreams of getting back to her (as she imagines) wonderful mother. (The mother makes these longings worse by writing the occasional letter.) Gilly is all the more determined to leave after she's placed in a new foster home wi... More
Book Information
PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
BindingHardcover (21 editions)
Reading LevelAges 9-12
# of Pages160
ISBN-100690038372
ISBN-13978-0690038378
Publication Date03/29/1978
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About Katherine Paterson (Author) : Katherine Paterson was born in China, where she spent part of her childhood. After her education in China and the American South, she spent four years in Japan, the setting for her first three novels.... more
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6/24/2009 julia b tagged as: I read

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