The Great Gilly Hopkins

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Summary: I recommend this book<---
Review: Are you searching for a good story book to read???You don't need to continue to find,because you have found it,¡¨The Great Gilly Hopkins¡¨.It is a very good story book.
"The Great Gilly Hopkins"was written by Katherine Paterson.The type of book is fiction.Why did I choose this book to read???The reason is the cover of this book.The cover attracts me to read it.On the cover,a girl was sitting in the floor and looking at a photo.She looks like very unhappy.I also feel her has many secrets.On that time,I think this book is very good,because she might have a touching story.I want to know the story of this girl.
In this book,the main character is Gilly Hopkins who is the girl on the book cover.She is eleven years old and a foster kid.She is in foster system all her life.She moves into her third foster home in less than three years.She wants to find her mother in Califormia.She also has a delusion that one day her real mother will live with her.Mrs Trotter,a fat countrywomen.She is a foster mother of Gilly.She also takes care about a metally slow foster child,is called Willian Ernest.
What is the ending of this story book???Finally ,Gilly with her mother and grandmother live.On that time,she wishes she is back living with Mrs Trotter.You want to know what happened before the ending,READ THIS BOOK~~!!
I like this book very much because it is very attractive.If you start to read this book,you will not want to stop it.You will continue to read and want to know what happened on the story.You will want to know whether Gilly find her mother at the end.Can she live with her mother??In this book,the discruption of characters and places are very detail.The editor describes the place are very detail to the readers because the editor wants the readers fuse into the story.This book is very easy to follow and the content is also very easy to understand.I have learnt what the thinking of the foster child have.They always feel alone and unpleasant.Their parents left these child,so they can't live with their parents and no one take care about them.They always think the reasons of parents left them are caused by them.We need to more take care about these foster child.
I recommend this book,¡¨The Great Gilly Hopkins¡¨ to all of you~~!!You don¡¨t need to continue to find another story book,you have found the best one~!!

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Summary: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Review: I first read this one day in class last year.We were going to be stuying it.At first,when I read the first 2 or 3 chapters i said "This is so boring!" but as i read more I loved it!Its a great story with lots of depth.Its about a girl who is forced to move in with a foster family.Really good book!

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Summary: Some things are better unanswered
Review: Some things are better unanswered, March 30, 2004
Reviewer: Casey Erikson from New Iberia, Louisiana United States
I highly recommend this book, the warmth and love it displays and the harsh reality of our actions. Author Katherine Paterson writes about the sensitive subject of foster care. Gilly Hopkins an eleven year old child has been in foster care all her life with the hope of her mom returning one day to get her. Gilly is a very bright and unmanageable child who is placed with the Trotter family to live. At first Gilly can only see what is on the surface of her new family, a large obese religious woman and a slow timid boy. Before she can see what is in the hearts of her new family she writes a desperate note to be rescued only the rescue is not what she expects and comes after she has learned the true meaning of family.

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Summary: Made me cry, and I don't like to cry.
Review: The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson. Another junior literature book--do you sense I have a 9 year old reader? This book made me cry. But I couldn't really cry because I was reading out loud to my daughter; and crying and reading--especially in voice--don't mix. So I just streamed tears and read, in voice, but with a slightly constricted throat. Afterwords I suffered the requisite headache one gets from not crying when you need to cry, which made me feel what was the use of holding back. I don't think Camden noticed any of this because she was completely swept away with the anger and passion of the lead character, Galadriel "Gilly" Hopkins. Gilly is a foster child who is very smart, and tougher than any kid--boy or girl in her school. Her life is based on this toughness born out of a of an indiscrimate hate and resentment of life. Along the way, the hard way, she learns about love and family and committment, and, well, loss and the consequences of one's actions. Did I mention previously about injustice and cruelty of life? Some pretty harsh language that I found myself editing out as I read, but a beautiful moving book.

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Summary: If you like adventures, you'll want to read this book!
Review: This book will make you want to cry and laugh at the same time. It's about a girl that has been to more foster families than she can remember. When she finally gets to someone's house and stays there, she figures out that her real mom might never come back for her. Gilly tries to go to see her mom when her mom, Courtney
, when she figures out that running away and stealing money from Trotter is not worth it. On Thanksgiving day, everybody is sick with the flu but her. When out of nowhere, her grandma comes out of the blue.Gilly refuses to go live with her,but it's no use. Gilly is forced to go. Her nonnie says that Courtney is coming to visit and Gilly can't wait. "How long?" Gilly asks. "I don't know," she says. Gilly and her nonnie are waiting at the airport, Gilly expecting to see a beautiful looking woman with perfect teeth, but instead she saw,... read The Great Gilly Hopkins to find out what Gilly sees instead of her beautiful mother, Courtney.

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Summary: Absolutely wonderful!
Review: This is one of the best (if not THE best) book I have ever read in my entire life! I read it for my Children's Literature class, and I could not put it down. I devoured it in a few hours, becoming completely engulfed and almost addicted to the characters and the story. I fell in love with these characters in such a short period of time, theres no wonder why Gilly did the same. I will say however, it is not a children's book and I do not understand why it is on any list for children. I thought that I would be bored reading a book for children considering I am a junior in college, but the material is quite mature and deals with very deep issues.

It's wonderful! Truly a beautiful story. I recommend it for mature teens and older, considering the issues and the language.

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Summary: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Review: This story is a real hit!! The title of this story is The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson. The story takes place in Tompson Park in modern times. The characters are Trotter, Gilly, and Courtney. Trotter is a girl in Gilly's foster family. She is nice, but sometimes unfair. And then there is Courtney. She is Gilly's real mother. Gilly really wants to see her. And Gilly, she is a foster child. She has a real attitude problem.
The problem is that Gilly is in a new foster home and a new school. The story is about Gilly trying to find and live with her mom so she does not have to go from house to house. Will Gilly find her real mother? Will her real mother want Gilly back? Read the book to find out.

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Summary: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Review: This was a good book. Gilly lives in foster homes and is moved to a new foster home. She is very stubborn and just wants to go live with her mom. While she is in this foster home, she starts out being mean. As she gets to know the people, she starts to have feelings for them. She really changes throughout the book. This book made me laugh, but it also made me feel sad. I don't want to say how it ends, I think you should read it for yourself to find out.

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Summary: 5th grade class captivated with Gilly's life and personality
Review: We are class 5T in Holland Elementary School in Holland, Massachusetts. We read The Great Gilly Hopkins for our second literature study book of the year. Our age group is from 10 to 11 years.

Gilly Hopkins is about an angry foster child who has a history of moving through many foster homes. She arrives at Maime Trotter's house hating her foster mother. During her stay at Trotter's house, Gilly learns love, self-control, and respect for others.

This is what we liked about the book. We became emotionally touched by Gilly's situation. Some of us cried while we read the book. Gilly was an interesting character because she changed from having hostile feelings for others to being a loving person. Some of us thought the author used vivid vocabulary that made Gilly seem real and interesting.

There are a few things we did not like about the book. Some of us thought the ending was sad. Gilly uses a lot of swears, and some of us didn't approve of that. There wasn't a lot of action in the story. People who like adventure stories might not like Gilly Hopkins.