Galadriel "Gilly" Hopkins, the main character of the novel, is an angry, aggressive foster child who wants to hurt others as she has been hurt. Abandoned to foster care by her mother, Gilly attempts to create an identity for herself as the "great Gilly Hopkins." A loner and a troublemaker, she alienates those who try to care for her. She believes that nobody will want to tangle with her because she is "too clever and too hard to manage."
Anger dominates Gilly's character.
Lashing out at the world that has ignored her, she bangs doors, spits obscenities, punches pillows, and gets into a fight with six boys at school. She exasperates Miss Ellis, her harried social worker, and draws a warning from her concerned principal, Mr. Evans. But she also learns that she must.....
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