The great Gilly Hopkins
Title
:
The great Gilly Hopkins
Personal Author EPSB
:
Katherine. Paterson
Summary
:
The one thing Gilly wants is a home of her own. If only she could find her mother and live with her. Instead, she finds herself in yet another foster home. As Gilly finds herself being slowly drawn into her latest foster family's circle of love, she becomes determined not to care in order to protect her feelings. When Gilly engineers her own "rescue" from her latest foster family, things don't turn out the way she plans and Gilly realizes too late that she never really wanted to be rescued at all--she just wanted to be wanted.
Year Published
:
2004
Physical Description
:
1 volume (various pagings) ; 20 cm.
Subject
:
Foster home care -- fiction.
Summary
:
The one thing Gilly wants is a home of her own. If only she could find her mother and live with her. Instead, she finds herself in yet another foster home. As Gilly finds herself being slowly drawn into her latest foster family's circle of love, she becomes determined not to care in order to protect her feelings. When Gilly engineers her own "rescue" from her latest foster family, things don't turn out the way she plans and Gilly realizes too late that she never really wanted to be rescued at all--she just wanted to be wanted.
ISBN
:
9780590613897
9780690038378
9780064402019
9780062386175
9780062422866
Publisher
:
New York : HarperTrophy, 1978.
Toronto : Scholastic Inc. 1978.
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2015], 2004.
New York : HarperTrophy, 2004, 1987.
©1978
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
|---|
| Norwood | F PAT | Book | 30156000061618 | Fiction |