This is a 1978 Newbery Honor book about an angry foster girl named Galadrial and called "Gilly". She is very angry and the author is able to maintain her hostile tone throughout the first half of the book. She has an unrealistic dream that her wonderful mother will come to claim her and they will live happily ever after. Discovering reality and adjusting to it is a theme of the book. She lives with "Trotter" an overweight, but loving foster mother and a fragile boy W.E. The ending where she finally meets her real mother is realistic and the story stops without saying too much of what will happen next. The reader can speculate on that. While this is a pretty interesting book, it is dated and I knew it was from the late '70's.
Not a lot of kids will choose this book today.
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