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The Great Gilly Hopkins Summary & Study Guide Description
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The Great Gilly Hopkins tells the story of a lonely foster child, who covers the pain of moving around from home to home with a tough, mean exterior. Despite her best efforts to block out anyone who tries to reach out to her, Gilly soon comes to love her unusual family, composed of an obese, illiterate woman, a skittish child, and a blind old man. The book was banned in some schools because of its rough language, but was acclaimed by critics and earned its author many awards.
Gilly Hopkins moves in with a new foster mother, Maime Trotter, and a new foster brother, William Ernest. This is her fourth family in several years. Initially, Gilly is skeptical about life in Thompson Park. She has never associated with people whose skin is different from hers, but suddenly she is dining every night with her elderly black neighbor, and being taught...
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