The+Great+Gilly+Hopkins

1) The Great Gilly Hopkins 2) Katherine Patterson 3) Gilly is a foster child. She does not get along with the other children in the house and the children at school. She is also racist against her teacher. Gilly decides to run away by stealing money from a blind man and trying to take a bus to San Francisco. This alienates the people that have been trying to be there for her. When the police pick her up, she is sent to live with her grandmother. 4) Fiction. 5) The main character is a little girl who is a thief and a racist. 6) According to Goodreads, this book received 3.78 stars out of 5 stars. 7) The book was banned in a district in Virginia because of curse words and using the word God out of religious pretext (Staples, 2011). It is number 21 in the American Library Association list of most challenged books. 8) Ages 9 +
 * 1) Overall people really enjoy this book. They love the tough character that is Gilly. They also like how Patterson wrote the story making it believable and realistic without a happy ending but you still knew that Gilly would be ok (Goodreads.com).

References: The great gilly hopkins. //Goodreads Inc.// 2012. Patterson, K. (1978). The great gilly hopkins. London. //Crowell.// Staples, S. (1996) Why johnny can't read. //The Allen Review.// 23 (2). []

Goodreads. (2012). Retrieved from: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/163465.The_Great_Gilly_Hopkins