書中的小女孩Gilly Hopkins從小就被母親遺棄，在社工的幫助下換過了三個寄養家庭，因此她雖然很聰明但卻憤世嫉俗，心裏還一直想著母親會來接她回家。最後來到了Thompson Park的Mrs. Trotter家，那裏除了Mrs. Trotter還有另一個小男孩William Ernest，還有一個天天到Mrs. Trotter家吃晚餐的老先生Mr. Randolph，而這本書就是描寫她在Mrs. Trotter家時所發生的事情及其情緒的變化，最後當她親生的外婆出現時，又會發生什麼事呢？她的親生母親真的來接她了嗎？還是又是另一個流浪的開始？適合12歲以上兒童閱讀。At eleven, Gilly is nobody's real kid. If only she could find her beautiful mother, Courtney, and live with her instead of in the ugly foster home where she has just been placed! How could she, the great Gilly Hopkins, known throughout the county for her brilliance and unmanageability, be expected to tolerate Maime Trotter, the fat, nearly illiterate widow who is now her guardian? Or for that matter, the freaky seven-year-old boy and the shrunken blind black man who are also considered part of the bizarre "family"? Even cool Miss Harris, her teacher, is a shock to her.
Gutsy Gilly is both poignant and comic as, behind her best barracuda smile, she schemes against them and everyone else who tries to be friendly. The reader will cheer for her as she copes with the longings and terrors of always being a foster child.
Katherine Paterson, winner of the 1978 Newbery Medal for Bridge to Terabithia and of the 197 7 National Book Award for The Master Puppeteer, again reaches across boundaries with her wit, compassion, and love, and here creates an immensely engaging story about a child's desperate search for a place to call home.
1979 Newbery Honor Book
Winner, 1979 National Book Award for Children's Literature
Notable Children's Books of 1978 (ALA)
1979 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
"Best of the Best" Children's Books 1966–1978 (SLJ)
1979 Christopher Award
1979 Jane Addams Award Honor Book
1980–81 Children's Choice Award (Iowa)
1981 Georgia Children's Book Award
1981 Garden State Children's Book Award (New Jersey Library Association)
1980–81 Children's Book Award (Massachusetts)
1981 William Allen White Children's Book Award
NY Public Library Books and Recordings 1978 --
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