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The Great Gilly Hopkins

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Author: Katherine Paterson

Interest Level:
4-6

Lexile Framework:
840L

Grade Level Equivalent:
6.2

Guided Reading Level:
NR

Age:
9-11

Genre:
Realistic Fiction

Subject:
Adoption and Foster Care, Women's Experience, Adolescence

How can the great Gilly Hopkins be expected to tolerate an ignorant foster mother, a freaky foster brother, or the poetry-loving black man next door? At first Gilly despises them all, but finds herself slowly drawn into their circle of love.

Winner of the 1979 National Book Award for Children's Literature and many other distinguished awards, this 1979 Newbery Honor Book is filled with love and compassion as it tells the story of an 11-year-old girl who yearns for a real family.