The Great Gilly Hopkins

Title: The Great Gilly Hopkins

Author: Katherine Paterson

Publishing Information: Harper Collins Children Book

Number of Pages:178

Summary: This about Gilly. She is a foster child that has been passed around and has really left a mark on her. She is on to her next mission which is Trotter. This big women that has another foster child living with her. She tries her hardest to put up a front but she begins to fall in love with the family that she is placed with. She wrote a note to her mother a letter to come save her. The mother then told the grandmother to go get her after all these years. By then she does not want to leave she loves Trotter but knows that her knew future is with her real grand mother.

Reaction: I have had foster children and they were never like this. This was a different story that I never read. It was nice to get an inside on her life and to realize how hard it is to be a foster child to have parents but they don't want you. I enjoyed it her vocabulary was a little harsh but you can't blame her because of the life she has had.

Problems: The only problems would be the way she treats people or the language she uses.

Recommendations: For those having a rough time. For those that need some one to relate to. To those that want to gain a better perspective of foster children and the life that they have to live.