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This guide includes an author biography, background information, thought-provoking discussion questions, summaries, as well as creative, cross-curricular activities and reproducibles that motivate students.

An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.

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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.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780064402019
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 6/28/1987
  • Edition description: 25th Anniversary Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 58,328
  • Age range: 10 - 12 Years
  • Lexile: 800L (what's this?)
  • Series: A Trophy Bk.
  • Product dimensions: 5.09 (w) x 7.63 (h) x 0.43 (d)

Meet the Author

Katherine Paterson

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. Ms. Paterson has received numerous awards for her writing, including National Book Awards for The Master Puppeteer and The Great Gilly Hopkins, as well as Newbery Medals for Jacob Have I Loved and Bridge to Terabithia. Ms. Paterson lives with her husband in Vermont. They have four grown children.

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The Great Gilly Hopkins

Welcome to Thompson Park



"Gilly,"said Miss Ellis with a shake of her long blonde hair toward the passenger in the back seat. "I need to feel that you are willing to make some effort."

Galadriel Hopkins shifted her bubble gum to the front of her mouth and began to blow gently. She blew until she could barely see the shape of the social worker's head through the pink bubble.

"This will be your third home in less than three years." Miss Ellis swept her golden head left to right and then began to turn the wheel in a cautious maneuver to the left. "I would be the last person to say that it was all your fault. The Dixons' move to Florida, for example. just one of those unfortunate things. And Mrs. Richmond having to go into the hospital"-it seemed to Gilly that there was a long, thoughtful pause before the caseworker went on-"for her nerves.."

Pop!

Miss Ellis flinched and glanced in the rear-view mirror but continued to talk in her calm, professional voice while Gilly picked at the bits of gum stuck in her straggly bangs and on her cheeks and chin. "We should have been more alert to her condition before placing any foster child there. I should have been more alert." Cripes, thought Gilly. The woman was getting sincere. What a pain. "I'm not trying to blame you, Gilly. It's just that I need, we all need, your cooperation if any kind of arrangement is to work out." Another pause. "I can't imagine you enjoy all this moving around." The blue eyes in the mirror were checking out Gilly's response. "Now this new foster mother is very different from Mrs. Nevins." Gilly calmly pinched a blob of gum offthe end of her nose. There was no use trying to get the gum out of her hair. She sat back and tried to chew the bit she had managed to salvage. It stuck to her teeth in a thin layer. She fished another ball of gum from her jeans pocket and scraped the lint off with her thumbnail before elaborately popping it into her mouth.

"Will you do me a favor, Gilly? Try to get off on the right foot?"

Gilly had a vision of herself sailing around the living room of the foster home on her right foot like an ice skater. With her uplifted left foot she was shoving the next foster mother square in the mouth. She smacked her new supply of gum in satisfaction.

"Do me another favor, will you? Get rid of that bubble gum before we get there?"

Gilly obligingly took the gum out of her mouth while Miss Ellis's eyes were still in the mirror. Then when the social worker turned her attention back to the traffic, Gilly carefully spread the gum under the handle of the left-hand door as a sticky surprise for the next person who might try to open it.

Two traffic lights farther on Miss Ellis handed back a towelette. "Here," she said, "see what you can do about that guck on your face before we get there."

Gilly swiped the little wet paper across her mouth and dropped it on the floor.

"Gilly-" Miss Ellis sighed and shifted her fancyon-the-floor gears. "Gilly-"

"My name," Gilly said between her teeth, "is Galadriel."

Miss Ellis appeared not to have heard. "Gilly, give Maime Trotter half a chance, OK? She's really a nice person."

That cans it, thought Gilly. At least nobody had accused Mr. or Mrs. Nevins, her most recent foster parents, of being "nice." Mrs. Richmond, the one with the bad nerves, had been "nice." The Newman family, who couldn't keep a five-year-old who wet her bed, had been "nice." Well, I'm eleven now, folks, and, in case you haven't heard, I don't wet my bed anymore. But I am not nice. I am brilliant. I am famous across this entire county. Nobody wants to tangle with the great Galadriel Hopkins. I am too clever and too hard to manage. Gruesome Gilly, they call me. She leaned back comfortably. Here I come, Maime baby, ready or not.

They had reached a neighborhood of huge trees and old houses. The social worker slowed and stopped beside a dirty white fence. The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly.

Standing on the porch, before she rang the bell, Miss Ellis took out a comb. "Would you try to pull this through your hair?"

Gilly shook her head. "Can't."

"Oh, come on, Gilly-"

"No. Can't comb my hair. I'm going for the Guiness Record for uncombed hair."

"Gilly, for pete's sake . . ."

"Hey, there, I thought I heard y'all pull up." The door had opened, and a huge hippopotamus of a woman was filling the doorway. "Welcome to Thompson Park, Gilly, honey."

"Galadriel," muttered Gilly, not that she expected this bale of blubber to manage her real name. Jeez, they didn't have to put her in with a freak.

Half a small face, topped with muddy brown hair and masked with thick metal-rimmed glasses, jutted out from behind Mrs. Trotter's mammoth hip.

The woman looked down. "Well, 'scuse me, honey." She put her arm around the head as if to draw it forward, but the head resisted movement. "You want to meet your new sister, don't you? Gilly, this is William Ernest Teague."

The head immediately disappeared behind Mrs. Trotter's bulk. She didn't seem bothered. "Come in, come in. I don't mean to leave you standing on the porch like you was trying to sell me something. You belong here now." She backed up. Gilly could feel Miss Ellis's fingers on her backbone gently prodding her through the doorway and into the house.

Inside, it was dark and crammed with junk. Everything seemed to need dusting...

The Great Gilly Hopkins. Copyright © by Katherine Paterson. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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  • Posted February 28, 2012

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    Eleven-year-old Galadriel Hopkins ("Gilly" to the plebs she is forced to mix with in foster care) is not known for being cute or cuddly. Instead, she is the girl with the harsh words, mean attitude and, most recently, the really big bubble of gum that blew up in her face. Gilly is not the girl any foster parent in their right mind would want to adopt.

    Which is just fine with Gilly because she already has a mother. A real mother. A movie star beautiful mother named Courtney Rutherford Hopkins who misses her and wishes they could be together.

    For Gilly, that's enough. Knowing that somewhere Courtney is wishing for her daughter as badly as Gilly is wishing for her mother can get Gilly through anything.

    At least, it could before she arrived at Mrs. Trotter's front door. Everything about this foster home is wrong. Trotter is fat and ugly. William Ernest, the other foster child, isn't too quick on the uptake. And (gasp) a wrinkled, old black man lives next door. Trotter and her band of misfits might be more bizarre than Gilly could ever imagine. But could they also be just what she needs? It's enough to make Gilly hatch an escape plan (or three) in The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978) by Katherine Paterson.

    First things first: The Great Gilly Hopkins was the 1979 Newbery Honor book (The Westing Game won the gold that year). It made it to #55 in Betsy Bird's Top 100 Children's Novels poll. I haven't been following the poll too closely because the posts overwhelm me, but the segment about Gilly is necessarily relevant to this review. Katherine Paterson herself was also just recently appointed National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.

    In other words, everything about this book is a big deal.

    Personally, I had very mixed feelings about The Great Gilly Hopkins (although I'm finding that to be true about a lot of children's classics lately). On the one hand I wanted very badly to be on Gilly's side and pull for her as an abandoned child that really needs someone to love her in her own right, not as a temporary commodity. On the other hand, Gilly works so hard at pushing people away that, at a certain point, it becomes hard to care too much or cheer too loudly for this girl who is all hard edges and anger.

    This next part is going to have spoilers because just about everyone in the entire world has already read this book: Paterson does a great job creating Gilly as a character she is fully developed even though she is loathe to tell readers everything about her less-than-ideal past in the foster system. The book also handles a bold topic: looking at a little girl who is in the foster system not because she is an orphan but because her parent did not want her. The abandonment is extreme and, in the story, becomes palpable even as Gilly clings to the idealized vision she's created for her mother from a photograph and a note.

    That said, I also had a lot of issues with the book. Gilly is essentially racist at the beginning of the story. She does grow and evolve and move past that, but it's one of those elements that seemed to be added to a book for a wow/edgy factor than for the actual story (in other words, I don't know that Gilly had to be racist to make the book work). It also seems like race wouldn't have been such a hot topic by that time--I might be mistaken though since I wasn't actually alive in 1978.

    The adults in the novel also bothered me. A lot. If the grandmother cared so much about Gilly why was she

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 10, 2012

    Terrible

    I had to read this book 4 school and i really didnt enjoy it. Gilly is rude and uses bad language, the characters are boring, and the story was just really lacking something essential to make it an enjoyable read.

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 21, 2012

    Memories

    I read this book in 5th grd...Haha great book to read together :)

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 24, 2012

    LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Me and 2 grils read this in novel study and we tought it was so funny and sad but realley boring on the first part now it got some action and we r in 4th grade and in KELLEYWOOD location:lewis and clark school

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 15, 2012

    Gilly Hopkins

    Great book.. read it in the seventh grade. Only bad thing is that is says a couple of words like "hell" and "retarded". So i dont recommend this to children. But other than that its great.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 2, 2012

    Anoymus

    This book was good, but it did have some problems. There was some bad words. The main character was racist.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 2, 2012

    Middle school must read

    I read this book for the first time about twenty five years ago. Even though i was young, the theme "what makes a family" still stuck with me. Even though Gilly is a troubled young girl, she realizes that even though she has a biological mom , Trotter was more of a mother to her than she ever had.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 30, 2012

    Trusted parent review

    This okay book is about a girl named Gilly Hopkins. This novel has some strong language so I recomend do not let younger children read without premisson so keep that in mind if a younger child wants to read this book. Happy reading!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 1, 2012

    Hey!!!!!!

    Im 8 and i freaking luv this book but i soooo¿¿ sAd ar the end!!! :(

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 23, 2012

    What

    How could you say that it was the worst book ever I loved the book !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    0 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 6, 2012

    Ghdhdjdjx

    I had to read this for school in 4th and I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is a awesome book and will recamend it to everybody!!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 26, 2011

    It was the worst book ever made in history

    It was horrible. Worst book ever it was bad because in the end it turns out her mom is mean and rude and gilly ends up sad which really shouldnt happen because every book needs a happy ending or its really bad and tacky!

    0 out of 2 people found this review helpful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 23, 2011

    Omg

    I like sushi but i love this book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 20, 2011

    Mrs.Trotter and Gilly

    She is a hippotimus woman she is nice and not shy she was not trying to be mean or possibly she will never be mean.But Gilly is being so rude,mean,and disrespectfull to her mother.Gilly was also being mean to her brother and he ws shy and scared.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 4, 2011

    Love it!

    A childhood classic. I am 25 and I still have my copy of this book. I will NEVER get rid of it.

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  • Posted October 11, 2011

    eh

    we read this in school and its a good book but the ending sucks.

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  • Posted September 2, 2011

    Great

    This book seems great to read but I am sure I will love it since so many people suggested.it

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  • Posted August 31, 2011

    This is the best

    This is the bombbdiggidy book its the bestt

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  • Posted May 17, 2011

    Had this for reading class and started out boring but is very interesting now ,!read,,,!!!!!!,!!,!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Posted April 15, 2011

    ADICTING

    this book is so adicting i read it with my class and the book is very unpredictable at times but trust me it will be hard to stop reading this book. so start reading the book it is really cheap to so just go to nook store type the title of the book in pay about 5-6 dollars and enjoy!!!!!!!!

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