The Great Gilly Hopkins
Publisher
Harper
Publication Year
2016
ISBN
9780062422866
Pages
212 pages
Genre
realism
Format
novel
Item Type
Fiction
Annotation
Watch out world! The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She's a foster kid who's been angry, lonely, and hurting for so long that's she's always ready for a fight. Be on the lookout for her best barracuda smile, the one she saves for well-meaning social workers. Watch out for her most fearful look, a cross between Dracula and Godzilla, used especially to scare shy foster brothers.
Grade Level
3-5, 6-8
Lexile Measure
800L
Diversity Topics
Family Relationships; Disability and Health; Foster care; Physical disability; foster child; foster siblings; foster homes; foster mother; blind; blind adult
Main Character
female child
Race/Ethnicities
White
Family Formation
foster mother
Awards
Christopher Award, 1979, Winner
Garden State Children's Book Award, 1981, Winner, Younger Fiction
Georgia Children's Book Award, 1981, Winner, Georgia Children's Book Awards
Golden Sower Award, 1982, Honor, Intermediate
Iowa Children's Choice Award, 1981, Winner, Iowa Children's Choice Award Grades 3-6
Jane Addams Children's Book Award, 1979, Honor Book
John Newbery Medal, 1979, Honor Book, Grades 5 Up
Massachusetts Children's Book Award, 1981, Winner, Grades 4-6
National Book Award, 1979, Winner, Children's Literature
Parents' Choice Award, 2003, Gold, Best 25 Books in 25 Years
Parents' Choice Award, 1978, Gold, Fiction
William Allen White Children's Book Award, 1981, Winner
Books to Read Aloud to Children of All Ages, 2003 Stories: Nine to Twelve
Children's Catalog, Eighteenth Edition, 2001
Children's Catalog, Nineteenth Edition, 2006
Kids Reading List, 2010 Age (10 and up)
Middle And Junior High School Library Catalog, Eighth Edition, 2000
Middle and Junior High School Library Catalog, Ninth Edition, 2005
Keywords
belonging; defense mechanism; anger; feelings; multiple homes; neighbor; letters
Diversity Impact
direct
STARS Citation
Paterson, Katherine, "The Great Gilly Hopkins" (2016). Diverse Families. 779.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/diversefamilies/779