The Great Gilly Hopkins

by Katherine Paterson · first published 1978

The Great Gilly Hopkins is a 1978 realistic children's novel by American author Katherine Paterson. It won the National Book Award for Children's Books in 1979, Patterson's second award in three years (1977). In 2012, it was ranked number 63 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal – the third of three books by Paterson in the top 100. A film adaptation starring Sophie Nélisse as Gilly Hopkins and Kathy Bates as Trotter was released in 2015.

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Genre:

Children's

Original language:

English

Reader rating:

★ 3.7 / 5 (3 on Open Library)

Year page:

1978