by Katherine Paterson · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420447896
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«La gran Gilly Hopkins» is the young adult novel by Katherine Paterson, published by Editorial Alfaguara in hardback (160 pages, in Spanish).
Eleven-year-old Gilly Hopkins has been through several foster homes and shields herself with defiance while dreaming that her biological mother will come for her. With Mrs. Trotte, patient and affectionate, she will learn that affection and trust can be offered unconditionally.
Novel winner of the National Book Award in the children's literature category. Its original title is The Great Gilly Hopkins.
For readers aged 13 and up looking for realistic stories about family, foster care, and the need to belong.
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.
