Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Paterson, Katherine (1978 ). The great gilly hopkins. New York, NY: Scholastic, Inc.

     I enjoyed this book as much as Jacob Have I Loved both by the same author, Katherine Paterson.  As troubled as Gilly seems at times, you can’t help but feel compassion towards her with the hand life has dealt her.  Her wish of reuniting with her mother finally comes, but despite having waited for so long, her hopes are crushed as she realizes that her mother does not plan to stay around for long.  The character deals with many changes in her life which leads her through a rollercoaster of emotions.

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