The great Gilly Hopkins

Reviewed by: Joanne Libby - Freeport Community Library, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: August 25, 2015

Review

This book won a Newbery Honor in 1978 when it was first published. This is a new edition as the story was made into a motion picture. It is the story of Galadriel Hopkins, an 11-year old foster child who has just moved in with a new family. Gilly, as she is called does not want to stay with the older woman and 6-year old boy she has been placed with and comes up with a plan to be reunited with her birth mother in California. Her plan backfires on her as her birth grandmother comes to get her as she grows to love her new home. Gilly learns to accept the consequences of the choices she made. This book would appeal to someone in 4th through 7th grades who likes realistic fiction.

Overall Book Score: very good