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* UnpleasantParentReveal: After idealizing Courtney her whole life, Gilly is heartbroken to realize that Courtney was never any of the things Gilly ascribed to her, and that she seemingly never even loved Gilly. She's so upset that her first impulse is to run away and go back to Trotter, the closest thing to a loving mother that she's ever had. The film adaptation takes it one step further by having Gilly actually ''go through with it'' (in the book, she only calls Trotter and is talked down by her over the phone).
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Gilly is sent to live with her biological grandmother as she realizes she actually loves the Trotters and wants to be with them. However, Nonnie will take good care of her, and they'll keep in touch with the Trotters.]]
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* OddNameNormalNickname: Gilly is a nickname for "[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Galadriel]]". She initially didn't like it but came around when she learned that Tolkien's Galadriel was a powerful queen.
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->''"Nobody wants to tangle with the great Galadriel Hopkins."''
-->-- '''Gilly'''
''The Great Gilly Hopkins'' is a 1978 [[ChildrensLiterature children's novel]] by Creator/KatherinePaterson.
Eleven-year-old Galadriel "Gilly" Hopkins is a headstrong FosterKid whose greatest dream is to settle down with her biological mother, Courtney. Upon arriving at her latest foster home, Gilly decides to make life difficult for her new foster mother, Trotter, and foster brother, William Ernest Teague. She devises a scheme to leave, but becomes conflicted when she realizes Trotter might just be the mother she needs.
The novel has been translated into multiple languages. A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] starring Creator/SophieNelisse as Gilly, Creator/KathyBates as Trotter, Creator/JuliaStiles as Courtney, and Creator/GlennClose as Nonnie was released in 2015.
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!!Tropes:
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Gilly is sent to live with her biological grandmother as she realizes she actually loves the Trotters and wants to be with them. However, Nonnie will take good care of her, and that they'll keep in touch with the Trotters.]]
* BlindBlackGuy: Mr. Randolph, Trotter's next-door neighbor, is both blind and black. Gilly, whose job it is to help him to and from his house, is surprised by this as she's never interacted with one of "those people".
* BrokenPedestal: Gilly idolizes her mother for most of the story. She resents that she can't be with Courtney and takes it out on her various foster homes. When she finally does meet Courtney, however, [[spoiler: Gilly sees that mother is a selfish and uncaring woman, a realization that makes her want to come home to Trotter instead.]]
* BubblegumPopping: Some covers show the title character, a young girl, blowing a head-sized bubble on the front and the popped gum covering her face on the back.
* FosterKid: Gilly is a foster kid currently in the system. She hates it and wants to live with her biological mother.
* HappilyAdopted: Gilly spends most of the story fantasizing about meeting her mother while looking down on her foster family, but in the end she realizes that she loves her foster family, and [[spoiler:finds out that her mother doesn't want her and is far from perfect. Although she doesn't stay with them, she appears to stay in contact with them and ends up more or less this trope with her biological grandmother instead.]]
* LastNameBasis: Maime Trotter, Gilly's new foster mother, is referred to as "Trotter".
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Eleven-year-old protagonist Gilly, owing to a rough upbringing, calls her fat foster mother a "hippo", is aghast when asked to accompany the neighboring BlindBlackGuy, and calls her own teacher a slur as a ploy to leave. She eventually learns to question her own racism, ableism, and fatphobia throughout the book.
* RaisedByGrandparents: [[spoiler:Gilly's eventual fate. She initially resents being taken in by her grandmother because what she wanted was to be reunited with her ''mother'', but eventually accepts her grandmother as a guardian after realizing how much her grandmother actually cares about her (and that her mother was never going to be the parent Gilly craved).
* TheRunaway: Gilly attempts to reunite with her mother in San Francisco by stealing money from her neighbor and making a break for it. She is caught by police.
* StarbucksSkinScale: The titular character's black teacher, Miss Harris, has skin that Gilly describes as "tea-colored".
* UnusualPopCultureName: Gilly's real first name is Galadriel, owing to [[HippieParents her mother being a former flower child]]. While she initially isn't fond of it, she develops more positive feelings when she learns that [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings her namesake]] is a strong and rebellious queen.
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->''"Nobody wants to tangle with the great Galadriel Hopkins."''
-->-- '''Gilly'''
''The Great Gilly Hopkins'' is a 1978 [[ChildrensLiterature children's novel]] by Creator/KatherinePaterson.
Eleven-year-old Galadriel "Gilly" Hopkins is a headstrong FosterKid whose greatest dream is to settle down with her biological mother, Courtney. Upon arriving at her latest foster home, Gilly decides to make life difficult for her new foster mother, Trotter, and foster brother, William Ernest Teague. She devises a scheme to leave, but becomes conflicted when she realizes Trotter might just be the mother she needs.
The novel has been translated into multiple languages. A [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] starring Creator/SophieNelisse as Gilly, Creator/KathyBates as Trotter, Creator/JuliaStiles as Courtney, and Creator/GlennClose as Nonnie was released in 2015.
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!!Tropes:
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Gilly is sent to live with her biological grandmother as she realizes she actually loves the Trotters and wants to be with them. However, Nonnie will take good care of her, and that they'll keep in touch with the Trotters.]]
* BlindBlackGuy: Mr. Randolph, Trotter's next-door neighbor, is both blind and black. Gilly, whose job it is to help him to and from his house, is surprised by this as she's never interacted with one of "those people".
* BrokenPedestal: Gilly idolizes her mother for most of the story. She resents that she can't be with Courtney and takes it out on her various foster homes. When she finally does meet Courtney, however, [[spoiler: Gilly sees that mother is a selfish and uncaring woman, a realization that makes her want to come home to Trotter instead.]]
* BubblegumPopping: Some covers show the title character, a young girl, blowing a head-sized bubble on the front and the popped gum covering her face on the back.
* FosterKid: Gilly is a foster kid currently in the system. She hates it and wants to live with her biological mother.
* HappilyAdopted: Gilly spends most of the story fantasizing about meeting her mother while looking down on her foster family, but in the end she realizes that she loves her foster family, and [[spoiler:finds out that her mother doesn't want her and is far from perfect. Although she doesn't stay with them, she appears to stay in contact with them and ends up more or less this trope with her biological grandmother instead.]]
* LastNameBasis: Maime Trotter, Gilly's new foster mother, is referred to as "Trotter".
* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Eleven-year-old protagonist Gilly, owing to a rough upbringing, calls her fat foster mother a "hippo", is aghast when asked to accompany the neighboring BlindBlackGuy, and calls her own teacher a slur as a ploy to leave. She eventually learns to question her own racism, ableism, and fatphobia throughout the book.
* RaisedByGrandparents: [[spoiler:Gilly's eventual fate. She initially resents being taken in by her grandmother because what she wanted was to be reunited with her ''mother'', but eventually accepts her grandmother as a guardian after realizing how much her grandmother actually cares about her (and that her mother was never going to be the parent Gilly craved).
* TheRunaway: Gilly attempts to reunite with her mother in San Francisco by stealing money from her neighbor and making a break for it. She is caught by police.
* StarbucksSkinScale: The titular character's black teacher, Miss Harris, has skin that Gilly describes as "tea-colored".
* UnusualPopCultureName: Gilly's real first name is Galadriel, owing to [[HippieParents her mother being a former flower child]]. While she initially isn't fond of it, she develops more positive feelings when she learns that [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings her namesake]] is a strong and rebellious queen.
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