by Katherine Paterson · Salvat Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788434586215
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«La Gran Gilly Hopkins» is the young adult novel by Katherine Paterson, published by Salvat Alfaguara in paperback (152 pages, in Spanish).
Gilly Hopkins, an eleven-year-old girl raised in foster homes, distrusts anyone who tries to help her and responds with defiance. With Mrs. Trotte, her new family, her schemes to sabotage the household clash with patience and affection, and little by little Gilly learns to trust and feel part of a place.
This Spanish edition from 1987 belongs to the Biblioteca Juvenil collection; the original English title is 'The Great Gilly Hopkins'.
Recommended for young adult readers and for those seeking realistic stories about foster families and the search for a home.
Katherine Paterson is an American writer best known for children's novels, including Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978. For four different books published 1975–1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of four people to win the two major international awards; for "lasting contribution to children's literature" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in children's literature. Also for her body of work she was awarded the NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature in 2007 and the Children's Literature Legacy Award from the American Library Association in 2013. She was the second US National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, serving 2010 and 2011.
