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Gilly Hopkins is a foster child and is moving to a new foster home. Gilly's mother left her when she was just a baby. Will she see her mother again? Now she has to move to another smelly, old foster home. And she doesn't want to be there. Or does she? Find out by reading this awesome book.
My favorite part of the book is when Gilly teaches W.E. how to fly a paper plane. This is my favorite part because Gilly starts getting to like her foster home. And thats saying something, because she usually hates her foster homes. She usually tries as hard as she can to leave. But now she thinks she's turning too soft.
I would give it 10 out of 10 *'s.

Gilly (Gladrial) Hopkins is 11 years old and in the 6th grade. Gilly has been moved all around creation, all because of her mother who gave her to the foster care system. Gilly has a difficult time fitting in with each foster parents so they keep moving her. One day, Gilly moves in with a big woman named Trotter, and a tiny, weird little kid, named William Ernest. At their first dinner together, Gilly meets Mr. Randolph, an old black, sunken-eye, blind man. She doesn't like any of them and she wants to run away. Will her problems ever end? Doesn't her Mom still want her? Read the, "The Great Gilly Hopkins", by Katherine Paterson to find out.

I would give this book 100 points out of 100. This book is a very funny, exciting, sad and happy story. I recommend this book to kids of all ages. I couldn't put the book down for days, I was on the edge of my seat. If you don't believe me, read it for yourself.

The book I read is called The Great Gilly Hopkins. This book is about an orfin girl named Gilly. The orfanige,put Gilly in a new home with a fat,dirty women, named Miss.Trotter,a fat mentalilly retarded little boy named William,and a blind old Afrin American man,in a small gruby old house. Gilly is 11years old,and is in the 6th grade.

Read this Great, funny book,to find out if Gilly stays with Miss TROTTER.

I read the book the Great Gilly Hopkins. It is about a foster child who has to live with a woman named Trotter and a boy named William Ernest. She hates living there. She goes to school like any other kid. then she meets a girl named,Agnes. And then she finds out about her mom and she
wants to go meet her mom. And she lives in California. And she needs money,which she dont have. How will she get the money to go see her mom? I would recommend this book to anyone. This book is ***** 5 out of 5 stars.

The book The Great Gilly Hopkins is about a foster girl named Gilly. Gilly is 11 years old and is in sixth grade.Gilly has been moving house to house for about 8-9 years.Gillys mom {Courtney} lives in California and Gilly lives in D.C. After the last house she finds a house and she thinks is a bad house because of the way the house looks. She doesn't give the family a chance and thinks they are a bad family. Gilly is afarid if she likes W.E. {her brother} she will go all nice. She ends up.... wait I'll let you read it and find out.
I give it ********* 9 out of ten stars
Kelsey R-O

I have recently read the Great Gilly Hopkins, which turned out to be very great for its size( about a little less then 200 pages). The book is about an 11 year old foster child who has given up on trying to learn to love her families. She had moved about 8 times in her life, just because her families didn't love her. Gilly longs to live with her own mother, to be loved. Then she has a plan, a plan to live with her mother, and to never move again her life.
I like the part where Gilly finds out she really can have a family that loves her, she just had to find the right one.
This book should get 4 out of 5 stars.
I'd have to recomend this book to 5,6,and 7 graders.
Read this book to find out where she ends up!

I have been reading The great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine peterson.
It is about a girl who is a foster child who is very mad about going to a new home. Once she saw the house she thought that the house was crammed with junk,and dirty.
she also thoughtthat W.E.and Trotter were weird and stupid.
Her room was small with a bureau. Next door lives a colored man named Mr. Randoph he came over every night for dinner. At school she meet...
I give this book two thumbs upand I recommend this book for people who dosen't like their parents.

My favorite part was when the book began.
A summary about it is:
Gilly Hopkins mom left her when she was a baby. Now she is forced to live with these really nasty people, in her opinon, and she starts to like them. Her grandmother comes to get her and she doesn't know who's she going to live with.
Read the book to find out what happens.
I'll give this book a 2 thumbs up, and 50 stars.
(ages 7 and up.)

I read this book called The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson.I thought it would be a good book for
kids of all ages,and people that are adopted or in
phoster care.
I thought Gilly was a lot like me when was when I was in foster care. She also hesitated like I did when I had a choice to live with my real parents.

The Gilly Hopkin book is a great to read in class and at home. I relly like it. Gilly is a 11 year old orphain she is in 6grade she lives with her foster mother Trotter and her foster brother W.E.. Gilly is a mean little girl she calls people names. I get this book 10 stars.

The great gilly hopkins is written by katherine paterson.this story is about a orphin . Her name is gilly hopkins she is mad about moving to trotters house.She doesnt like trotter .She wants to run away. Then the police came and where going to take her to jail.But trotter came and said I will never let any body take gilly.She goes to her gramas housh and they write letters to we and trotter. She metts her mom and she donest like her mom.

I think the Great Gilly Hopkins is a good boook to read. Gilly is a foster child that moves around to different
families and different kinds of places like a mobile home with Trotter aand W.E.
I give this book 20 thumbs up.
I think you should read and find out more about this book The Great Gilly Hopkins.
I recommend that all ages read this book.

The book I read was The Great Gilly Hopkins. It's about an orphan girl who moves in with a retated little boy & a fat werid-o woman. Gilly is 11 years old & and in 6th grade.

My favorite part was when Gilly moved in with her grandma. It was very funny when Gilly didn't walk into courtney's room.''Two thumbs up''for me.

The Great Gilly Hopkins is a wonderful book!
I myself have read it along with my sixth grade reading class and loved it!

The book is about a girl named Gilly Hopkins who was orphaned at 3 years old. Growing up,she was adopted to many families and sooner or later dropped off again. Finally someone different comes her name is Maime Trotter,a widowed adopter. When Gilly first neets them she thinks of them as stupid and retarted. Worst of all she meets a colored man named Mr.Randolph. As soon as she begins to like them,a mysterious visitor comes to visit. So Gilly must make an important decision.

I give this book a 4/5 stars. I would recommend this book to people who think they hate their parents,but by reading this book they will find out how valuable they really are.

I read the book called "The Great GIlly Hopkins"by Katherine Paterson.
A girl named Gilly Hoppkins is a foster child. Mrs. Ellis, caseworker,takes gilly to her third foster mother, Mrs.Trotter,in Thompson Park. Gilly has a hard time adjusting and getting herself in trouble over and over again. Gilly is tired of being a foster child. All she wants is to live with her mother,Coyrtney,in California. All Gilly could think about is getting enough money to take herself to California. Gilly was always trying to be tough,but soon changes her ways. With all the excitment,does Gilly get to live with her mother or not? You'll never know want will happen to her enless to read the book.
My favorite part in the book is when Mrs.Trotter tries to move around when she's sick and lost her balance and falls on top of Gilly,screaming get off of me!
I give this book thumbs up,with a four out of five stars.
I recommend the book to a foster children that do not have a mother or a home to go to.

I read this book called The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson. I thought it would be a good book for kids of all ages,and people that are adopted or in foster care.
I thought Gilly was a lot like I was when I was in foster care. She also hesitated like I did.

I have read a very good book lately called The Great Gilly Hopkins. This is a Newberry Honor book written by Kathrine Paterson.
This book has a great story about an eleven year old, sixth grade, foster child who has been put in a foster home with a hippo, and an eight year old baby. At least that's what Gilly thinks at first, but then when she starts becoming adjusted to her new family, there is a knock at the door. I wonder who it is? Read the book to find out.
I think the book The Great Gilly Hopkins is a five out of five star rated book. If you like excitement and adventure this is a great book for you. READ The Great Gilly Hopkins by Kathrine Paterson! It is an awesome book.

I read the book: The Great Gilly Hopkins. Gilly's mom(Courtney) puts Gilly in foster Care right after she was born. Gilly Goes and lives with Maime Trotter and William Ernest. Gilly finds herself with an overweight, softhearted, bimbo and a 7 year old annoying little kid.
She steals money from the blind next door neighbor. She try's to runaway on a subway train and get's caught by a policeman. Finally Gilly's grandma shows up at Trotters house and wants Gilly to come live with her. My favorite part is when W.E first says "pow." Then Gilly finally meets... I give it 4 out of 5 stars. I would recomend this book to boys and girls.

The book about this girl named gilly. She is not really nice. She is 11 years old and she is in 6th grade. She went and lived with Trotter and she really wanted to live with her mother. She liked some people not alot she's not really likeful. Gilly just don't like people as well she calls people names she just not that nice sometimes she really can be nice. Do you think she went and saw her mom? how many stars do I give this book 20 stars.

I read a book called The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katerine Paterson.It was great!
It is about a orphan who goes to live with a mom named Mrs.Trotter,and a boy named W.E.(William Ernest). When she gets there and she HATES IT! So she thinks. She writes her mom a letter that saids that the place is really awful. But after she is with them for awhile, she realizes that it is not that bad.
Read and find out if her mom comes and gets her.
I give this book 10 out of 10 stars.

The book we were reading was the great Gilly Hopkins By Kathernie paterson. Gilly is 11 year old she is a foster child . Gilly is mean she had to keep moving because the people didn't want her any more. Gilly moved again she moved with a person name trotter she didn't like her our W.E. at first then she started to like them. But she had to moved with her grandma but she didn't want to because she wented to stay with trotter. My favorite part was when she beat up the boys. I give the book a 8 out of 10 because it was good you should read it some time. I think all ages should read it.

I have read The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson.This book is about a a girl who is a foster child who lives with a grown-up named Trotter in a nasty home.At first gilly dosen't like Troter or her son William Earnest.to her surprise at the end she starts to like them.It's surprising that Troter still loves the her even though Gilly stole some money from her.One day Gilly was asked to pick up Mr. Randolph to eat at Trotter's house.When she went there she found out thet he was black.she also stole from him later on.She also has to live with her grandma in the end. I wonder if she likes Courtney.
I give this book 4out of 5 stars.

The book is about a foster child who moved to different famil's. She didn't like any of the foster family's until she moved to Trotter's house. Then after a week of sickness in trotter's house. Gilly opend the front door to a small plump woman Gilly's .......... Read the book to find out.

I give it two thumbs up.

I recomend it to girls of all ages

This book tells of a young girl trying to find a place to call home. Meeting many friends along the way, Trotter, WE. This young girl was orphened when she was just a baby.
The thing she wnts more then it all is just to see her mother. I cant tell you to much because I want you to read the book yourself. I recomend this book to anyone who is in to this sorta stuff, i'm not, but you might be. I give it 2 out of 10 stars.

I read the book The Great Gilly Hopkins. It is a great book and I think you should read it. It's by Katherine Paterson. Its about a foster girl who is sent to live with a mean person named Trotter and a stupid kid named W.E. Later in the book Gilly steals money from her blind neighbor Mr. Randolph who is blind. She finds about 35 dollars and gives 5 to her friend Angnas Strokes. Later in the book Gilly finds out that Trotter isn't that bad and W.E. isn't that stupid. Gilly does house work to pay the money back that she stole from Mr. Randolph. My favorite part is where Gilly stole the basketball. I would give it a 5 out of 5.

Gilly is a girl, a girl who has no mom, a girl who has, no mom no, and no family, until nowThe Great Gilly Hopkins is a wonderful and inspiring book about a foster child who winds up with 2 homes and wonderful families, but she has to choose one. Read to find out. Great book read by all ages 4 out 5 stars

The book I read is by Katherine Patterson. The The Great Gilly Hopkins is a very adventurous book. It has alot of humor and some action. I love how its always a mystery. This book is about a orphan who wants a home but never seems to find one. This is a good book for a person who likes to see a mean kid who gets nice gradually. Find out if she stays with a foster home or her mom. The answer is??? Read the book to find out. I would give it 4 out of 5 stars.

My class in reading was assigned to read the book called The Great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson. This book is about a girl who is a foster child, who is trying to get back to her mother. So she steals money from her naighbor, but when she goes to the bus station they call the police and then call her foster parent and she comes to get Gilly. On the way to getting back to her mother's she makes some friends but mostly uses them, but near the end she becomes more of a friend, but then she gose to live with her grandma because of the letter she wrote to her mom that said that the foster family was rude and trashy. Then Gilly's grandma paid her mom to come see Gilly. At the beginning Gilly thinks her mom cares about her but when she meets her mom she doesn't know about that anymore. My favorite part of the book was when Gilly found the money in the books. I'd give this book a 1 thumb up. I would recommend this books to boys and girls between the ages of 10-14 years of age. Hurry and go check it out at the library,

I read the book the Great Gilly Hopkins the author is Katherine Paterson. My summary is I read about this girl that is in 6th grade, she is 11 years old. In the first part of the book she was mean and in the end she was starting to get nice. Gilly was a brat and she stole money from Mr. Randolph and bought a plane ticket to find her mom. My favorite part was when Gilly taught Trotter to fly a plane and when Gilly started to be nice. I give this book two thumbs up because it gave detail. I would recommend this book to boys and girls.

The book is about a 11 year old who is going through foster homes like a book. She ends up at Trotter's, and leaving her school, mening Gilly went to a new school meeting new people, like Agnes and getting a new brother. Gilly hated it there, so she wrote a letter to her mom to find out more go to your local libary and check out this book.

The book I read was The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson .
This book is about a girl that never met her real mother and she is very mean and very, very smart . She is going to live with another foster mother . My favorite part is when she is first going to school and thinks that no one is better than her or smarter .
I rate this book whith ten out of ten stars. I would rate this book for boys and girls of all ages . I really injoyed this book because it is creative and the author is not afraid to write what she wants to say . This book also might teach some kids a lesson and the lesson is not bad.

I read the book of Gilly Hopkins and the author of this book is Katherine Paterson. My favorite part in Gilly Hopkins book is the middle of the book. It is so fun when Gilly wrote W.E. a good and bad letter.

I read the book called The Great Gilly Hopkins, and in the story, Gilly went to a school to learn and so she was mean at the first and she lied. She is 11 years old. Gilly helps some kids only and she always shows her real anger plus she only cares about her self mostly unless she has a good friend. The book is about what I told you and what I'm gonna tell you right now, but she is a foster child and she goes to a new family and thier relationship is very bad!
I give this three thumbs up!

This book is about a girl named Gilly. She's a foster child. Gilly lives with a foster mother named Trotter. Trotter had another foster child named W.E. Trotter lives in a small dirty house. Gilly hates the house. Next door lives a blind old man named Mr. Randolph. Gilly goes to school and meets a girl named Agnes and her teacher Miss. Harris. Gilly at first hated Agnes but later in the book she uses her and W.E to steal from Mr. Randolph but Gilly gets caught and has to work off the money. Then Gilly's grandma came to take her but Gilly doesn't want to leave but she ends up leaving.
I'd give this book 1 thumb up
I'd recommend this to 6th graders.

The great Gilly Hopkins is about an 11 year old girl, who doesn't even know her mom or dad. Gilly is a foster child who is moving to a new foster home. When she gets there she has an unpleasant surprise. She thinks her foster mom (Trotter) is a hippo and her foster brother William Ernest (W.E.). Will Gilly ever see her mom? Does she have a dad?
One of my favorite parts is when she has to pick out a tie for Mr. Randolf. If I had to rate the book I would give it a 5 star out of 5 stars.

Gilly who is a foster chiid has gone to her new foster home. She had to move because the last family moved to FL. Her new foster mom is Trotter and she also has a foster brother William Ernest (W.E.). She really wants to live with her but there is just one problem - her mom lives in California. So will she go find her mom and live with her? Just read The Great Gilly Hopkins to find out. My favorite part is when she first moves.

Gill tird to go some were it is sord broing and the rest is a iot of action and gill has to live with she tras to run away soweae and you will find outif you read the book I'll the book and I dont real like to read and I read the hole thig to so what dose that mean.your favorite part my favorite part is when gilly crain to run away from home and trid to see her mom in cafioronshe got i wold give the book 5 thum up i think this book is good for girl and boys

The book I read was The Great Gilly Hopkins By Katherine Paterson.
It was about a girl (Gilly) who's being adopted ,she's never seen her mom. And her grandma comes to take Gilly away to live with her grandma.Gilly didn't want to leave her new foster home. Gilly has never seen her grandma either and her grandma takes her to go see her mom.
My favorite part was where Gilly tries to run away to go live with her mom, but gets cought.
I would give this book a two thumbs up becouse it was funny, long, and I couldn't put it down.
I would recommend this book to a girl or boy who can read.

The book is about a 11 year old girl, that is a foster child. Gilly, short for Galadriel, has just moved in with her new foster parent, Trotter, and her foster brother, William Ernest, W.E. for short. She thinks that the house is a dump, and she wants to get as far away as she possibly can. Worst of all Gilly has to eat dinner with a blind, black man, which she has never done before (and dosen't really want to). Gilly finds adventure everywhere in this book, from stolen money to joke cards, Gilly is always getting into trouble.
My favorite part of this book is when Gilly takes the basketball away from the boys on the playground and they start chasing her.
I would give The Great Gilly Hopkins nine out of ten stars because it was a very good book, I couldn't put it down. I've read better books though, so that's why I give it nine out of ten stars.
I recommend this book to girls and boys, ages nine to twelve or grades fourth to seventh.

The book I read was The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson. It is about a 11 year old girl whose mom didn`t want her so she left her with different people. Eventually Gilly ended up with someone named Maime Trotter. Trotter has another Kid named William Ernest or W.E. There also is somebody named Mr.Randolph, who comes over every evening for dinner. I would give it four stars out of five.

Gilly is a foster child. She moved to her new foster parent named Trotter, Trotter made Gilly feel very good.
Gilly talks to her mom every day. Miss Ellis her case worker comes to take Gilly away from Trotter. Does she get taken away? Go to your local library and read more to find out more.
I recommend it to 6, 7, 8 graders. I give it 5 stars.

Gilly Hopkins is concluded to be no-one's child and she is a foster child that no one cares about. She gets mad because she has to move away from her mom. She was going to a new school. She had a friend named Agnes strokes. Gilly is a girl that says swearwords like hell, dammit. She once said to Trotter that she was the meanest person she knew. Gilly had a couple people that she knows, she know Mr. Randolph, Trotter, W.E, Miss. Harris, MISS Ellis, she knows mrs. Liz and she knows who her nonnie is. The funniest chapter in this book is harrassing Miss Harris. In this chapter at the beginning of class before anybody gets there Gilly puts a note on Miss Harris' desk and harrasses her. Gilly thought as she sat there for 2 hours waiting for Miss Harris to take her grade book and grade papers. She finally at the last hour picked up a stack of papers and started grading skids paper finally she seen the paper that Gilly had written and she asked Gilly to stay after class and tell her why she wrote the letter. I think that Gilly should learn to not be mean all the time she shouldn't swear all the time either
I would give the book 2 thumbs up for being good at not swearing.

Gilly is a foster child and goes to a new family it is about how the relationship develops between them.
My favorite part is when she took the ball from the 6th boys playing basketball. I give the book two thumbs up. I would recommend this to boy and girls in 5th grade and up.

In this story Gilly is the main character and she is an orphan. But not a normal orphan she is very smart and tricky.Also she is mean, nice, hurtful to some people, lovable, and weird. Sometimes she steals, and then works to pay it back.
My favorite part is when Gilly takes the ball from the boys and keeps taking it and shooting it - finally all the boys jump on her.
I would give this book two thumbs up because it's so funny sad and unpredictable.
I recomend this book to fourth fifth and higher grades.

This book is about an 11 year old girl named Gilly Hopkins, who was put up for adoption at a young age. Gilly has been to many foster homes, now she's living with a woman who can't go up the stairs wihtout being tired, and who invites a black man over to dinner (which Gilly really hates). Now Gilly uses her smarts and her anger to try to get out of the custody of her new foster parent Trotter to try and go back to California to see the mother she never knew. Will she ever know?
My favorite part is when Gilly teaches the other foster child, William Ernest, to swear and stand up for himself.
I would rate this book two thumbs up because it's funny and teaches a lesson to some people.
I would recommend ( suggest) this book to all ages.
Will Gilly ever see her mom? Find out by reading The Great Gilly Hopkins.

The Great Gilly Hopkins is a great and inspiring book for children of ages 9 and up. It also is one of my favorite books I have read, so I'll tell you a little about the book. Gilly lives with a lady and her kid named W.E. Trotter but at first she really does not want to live with Trotter and W.E. Then she gets to know them and she gets in trouble and she is going to someone's house. It is either her grandma, mom, or Trotter. Which one will it be? Read the book and you will find out. I will give it 4 stars out of five.

The book I'm writing this review about is The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson. It's about an orphan girl who gets in trouble a lot. She has lived in 2 other foster homes and is going on her 3rd. She doesn't like the people she's with, but grows to like and love them. Gilly really wants to see her mom. Want to find out if she ever sees her mom? Read this book. My favorite part was when she teaches William Ernast how to fly paper air planes. The main charcters are Gilly, Mamie Trotter, William Ernast, and Mr. Randolph. I give this book a 4 out of 5 stars. I would recommened this book to boys and girls,and 4th or 5th grade.

The author is Katherine Paterson. Gilly is a orphan who moves in with a lady named Maime Trotter. She didn't like it there. She thought it was a dump. She had a mental son, a blind neighbor who Trotter thought was part of the family and a fat lady who thought Gilly would love her. She missed her mom so much, she moved in with her grandma. Courtney (her mom) came and visited with Gilly and her grandma. At the end she figures out her grandma paid her mom to come to make Gilly happy. My favorite part was when Gilly went to the bus station to buy a bus ticket to see her mom. I give the book 1 thumb up. Gilly was very clever and sneaky in the book. Other people might like it because Gilly is a lot like real people in the world. I would recommend this book to boys and girls. Probably 9th or 10th graders. Because there's a lot of swearing, I would also recommend this book to 12-16 year olds. If you ever want to read The Great Gilly Hopkins, I bet if you pick it up, you'll never put it back down.

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from Bath Middle School, Bath, Michigan, USA (September 2003)