The great Gilly Hopkins
Record details
- ISBN: 9780690038385 (lib. bdg.)
- ISBN: 0690038380 (lib. bdg.)
- ISBN: 9780690038378
- ISBN: 0690038372 :
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Physical Description:
148 p. ; 20 cm.
print - Publisher: [S.l.] : Harper & Row, c1978.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Newbery honor book." |
Summary, etc.: | An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly. |
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Subject: | Foster home care Fiction Foster home care Juvenile fiction |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Bibliomation.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | J FIC PATERSON (Text) | 34014133024860 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
The Great Gilly Hopkins : A Newbery Honor Award Winner
Katherine Paterson was born in Qing Jiang, Jiangsu, China in 1932. She attended King College in Bristol, Tennessee and then graduate school in Virginia where she studied Bible and Christian education. Before going to graduate school, she was a teacher for one year and after graduate school, she moved to Japan to be a missionary. Her first book, Sign of the Chrysanthemum was published in 1991. Other titles to follow included The Bridge to Terabithia and Jacod Have I Loved which both won her a Newbery Award, The Great Gilly Hopkins, Lyddie and The Master Puppeteer. In addition to the Newbery Award, she is the recipient of numerous others including the Scott O'Dell Award, the National Book Award for Children's Literature, the American Book Award, the American Library Association's Best Books for Young Adults Award and the New York Times Outstanding Books of the Year Award. She was also honored with the Hans Christian Anderson Award. (Bowker Author Biography)