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Newbery Challenge 171/415. I thought this book was going to be so much different than it was. I expected Gilly to be a hardened foster kid, but I wanted this story to have more heart and, maybe, a happy ending. I did not expect her to be a huge racist, a thief, and just plain mean. There isn’t much emotional or character growth for Gilly. The moral of the story is “life is hard”. I think I may have to give up on Katherine Patterson’s books. I also hated Jacob Have I Loved.
Such a great and powerful story of a Gilly, the foster kid bouncing to a new home and starting over yet again. The defensiveness and fight or flight mentality is so spot on. She’s the world weary teen, wearing her guts and her prejudice on her sleeve, so eager to out-smart everyone and prove herself. It’s a quick read and the end comes too fast—you’ll be fighting the tears.
Igazán tiniknek szól az élet nem kevés nagy kérdéséről, de nem szájbarágósan, hanem felnőttként, egyenrangú félként kezelve az olvasót. Mivel jó a sztori, a fordítás is, gyanítom, hogy az előző Paterson regényt a kissé elnagyolt kezelés lökte a középmezőnybe, pedig elvileg a Híd Terabithiábant tartják az írónő fő művének. A Nagy Gilly Hopkins mindenesetre jó befektetés volt, remélem egyszer majd a gyerek is elolvassa és szeretni fogja.
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This was one of my favorite books as a girl.
Gilly Hopkins is a foster child and she has been on her own for so long, she's forgotten what love looks like. She's tough and always ready to scrap, but she spends so much time pushing others away, when love finally does sneak up on her, she's completely blindsided. This story doesn't have a terrific ending, but it's definitely one worth reading.
Gilly Hopkins is a foster child and she has been on her own for so long, she's forgotten what love looks like. She's tough and always ready to scrap, but she spends so much time pushing others away, when love finally does sneak up on her, she's completely blindsided. This story doesn't have a terrific ending, but it's definitely one worth reading.
OH GILLY. I love anything Katherine Paterson writes.
I picked this up from the discount bin in a local bookstore ages ago. The Great Gilly Hopkins is a heart-warming light read about Galadriel 'Gilly' Hopkins who had to live with a foster family. It was unclear why she doesn't just live with her own mother or her own grandmother. She had to live with the trotters (did i get this right?). Gilly hated her foster family and her neighbour and her school and her school teacher and her friends... well Gilly hated everything really. All she wanted was to live with her own Mom. But in the end she became friendly with the foster family and lived with her grandma. I heard this book is about to be filmed! I can't wait to watch to movie.
"If life is so bad, how come you're so happy?"
"Did I say bad? I said it was tough. Nothing to make you happy like doing good on a tough job, now is there?"
"Did I say bad? I said it was tough. Nothing to make you happy like doing good on a tough job, now is there?"
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Graphic: Abandonment
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Racism, Religious bigotry
And Gilly makes book 120.
Beautiful, powerful book, highly reccomended.
Beautiful, powerful book, highly reccomended.
Another one down in my "summer" reading challenge. I liked this one, though it made my heart ache a bit. I particularly liked that it's a little real- and in the real world, things don't go quite like you plan.