Great Gilly Hopkins, The

At eleven, Gilly is nobody's real kid. If only she could find her beautiful mother, Courtney, and live with her instead of in the foster home where she has been placed! How could she, the great Gilly Hopkins, known throughout the county for her brilliance and unmanageability, be expected to tolerate Maime Trotter, the fat, nearly illiterate widow who is her guardian? Or, the freaky seven-year-old boy and the shrunken blind black man who is part of the "family?” She has a plan so her real mother will rescue her but it doesn't work out the way Gilly planned. . .