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The Great Gilly Hopkins

Name: The Great Gilly Hopkins
Author: Katherine Paterson

The Great Gilly Hopkins is a realistic children's novel by Katherine Paterson. It was published by Crowell in 1978 and it won the U.S. National Book Award next year. 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.The novel has been translated into Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish, and Árpád Göncz’s Hungarian translation has been adapted into a radio play.

“If there was anything her short life had taught her, it was that a person must be tough. Otherwise, you were had.”

Katherine Paterson book The Great Gilly Hopkins

Gilly Hopkins
The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978)

“"Trotter its all wrong. Nothing turned out the way it was supposed to." "How do you mean supposed to? Life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough." [.. ] "If life is so bad, how come you're so happy?" "Did I say bad? I said it was tough. Nothing to make you happy like doing good on a tough job, now is there?"”

Katherine Paterson book The Great Gilly Hopkins

Gilly Hopkins and Trotter
The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978)