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One tough cookie
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 unmangable.
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 doens'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....
1979 Newbery Honor Book
Winner, 1979 National Book Award for Children's Literature
Notable Children's Books of 1978 (ALA)
1979 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
"Best of the Best" Children's Books 1966–1978 (SLJ)
1979 Christopher Award
1979 Jane Addams Award Honor Book
1980–81 Children's Choice Award (Iowa)
1981 Georgia Children's Book Award
1981 Garden State Children's Book Award (New Jersey Library Association)
1980–81 Children's Book Award (Massachusetts)
1981 William Allen White Children's Book Award
NY Public Library Books and Recordings 1978
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Gilly Hopkins is a determined-to-be-unpleasant 11-year-old foster kidwho thereader can't help but like by the end. Gilly has been in the foster systemall her life, and she dreams of getting back to her (as she imagines)wonderful mother. (The mother makes these longings worse by writing theoccasional letter.) Gilly is all the more determined to leave after she'splaced in a new foster home with a "gross guardian and a freaky kid." Butshe soon learns about illusions--the hard way. This Newbery Honor Bookmanages to treat a somewhat grim, and definitely grown-up theme with loveand humor, making it a terrific read for a young reader who's ready to learnthat"happy" and "ending" don't always go together. (Ages 9 to 12)
--RichardFarr
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"The arrogant, bitter heroine of this moving story is a wisecracking, gum-chewing kid who has been shuttled from one foster home to another. . . . [She is portrayed] with warmth and wit, in a story filled with love and compassion." -- "CE"
作者简介
Katherine Paterson is one of the world's most renowned children's book authors. Ms. Paterson has received the National Book Award twice and has won the Newbery Medal for both
Bridge to Terabithia and
Jacob Have I Loved. She is also the author of two other I Can Read Books featuring
Marvin, The Smallest Cow in the World and
Marvin's Best Christmas Present Ever. Ms. Paterson lives in Barre, Vermont.
| 出版社 | HarperCollins |
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| 作者 | Katherine Paterson |
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