by Katherine Paterson · Piemme · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788838437212
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«La Grande Gilly Hopkins» is the children's and young adult novel by Katherine Paterson, published by Piemme in paperback (208 pages, in Italian).
Gilly is an eleven-year-old girl in foster care who responds with irony and a bad temper to anyone who tries to get close. Beneath that facade lie the fear of abandonment and the longing for a home of her own. Through unexpected encounters, she discovers that friendship and affection can arise where she least expects it, and that letting herself be loved can be her refuge.
Originally published in 1978 as The Great Gilly Hopkins. This Italian edition is part of the Il Battello a Vapore collection. Winner of the National Book Award and nominated for the Newbery Medal.
For young readers interested in realistic and emotional stories about childhood, friendship, and life in foster care.
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.
