Two-time Newbery Medal winner Katherine Paterson writes of children in crisis, at the crossroads of major decisions in their lives. Her youthful protagonists turn "tragedy to triumph by bravely choosi...
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October 21, 1932. Born in the Jiangsu Province of China in the city of Qing Jiang. "If I tell you that I was born in China of Southern Presbyterian missionary parents, I have already given away the th...
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Katherine Paterson's reverence for words coupled with her respect for the power of story prompted her to keep writing for years when, not ready to publish, she was learning her craft. Her reluctance o...
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Critical Essay by Jean F. Mercier
"God help the children of the flower children" is the theme of Paterson's ["The Great Gilly Hopkins"], a potentially rich story bu...
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Critical Essay by Jack Forman
Eleven-year-old Gilly Hopkins is a foster child seemingly modeled on the Tatum O'Neal character from Paper Moon and Bad News Bears. She is endowed with an above-a...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
Paterson's development of the change in Gilly is brilliant and touching, as she depicts a child whose tough protective shield dissolves as she learns to accep...
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Critical Essay by Natalie Babbitt
[The Great Gilly Hopkins] is a book which, having a choice to make between a happy ending and a hard one—both being reasonable—chooses the latter, ther...
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Critical Essay by Ethel L. Heins
Gilly—short for Tolkien's Galadriel—is not only a foster child but also, deliberately and blatantly, an enfant terrible…. In its similarit...
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Teaching The Great Gilly Hopkins
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The Great Gilly Hopkins Lesson Plans contain 153 pages of teaching material, including:
This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book include...
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A foundation of materials for teaching a work of literature, LitPlan Teacher Packs⢠from Teacher's Pet Publications have everything you need for a complete unit of study. Download, print, and ...
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A foundation of materials for teaching a work of literature, LitPlan Teacher Packs from Teacher's Pet Publications have everything you need for a complete unit of study. Download, print, and teach....
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Here's a whole manual full of puzzles, games, and worksheets related to the novel! It includes: 1 unit word list and clues, 4 unit fill in the blank worksheets, 4 unit multiple choice worksheets, 4...
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Here's a whole manual full of puzzles, games, and worksheets related to the novel! It includes: 1 unit word list and clues, 4 unit fill in the blank worksheets, 4 unit multiple choice worksheets, 4...
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This resource is directly related to its literature equivalent and filled with a variety of cross-curricular lessons to do before, during, and after reading the book. This reproducible book include...
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Katherine Paterson
Katherine (Womeldorf) Paterson
Critical Essay by Jean F. Mercier
A Guide for Using The Great Gilly Hopkins in the Classroom
