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Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all. She has a county-wide reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. So when she's sent to live with the Trotters -- by far the strangest family yet -- Gilly decides to put her sharp mind to work. Before long she's devised an elaborate scheme to get her real mother to come rescue her.

But the rescue doesn't work out, and the great Gilly Hopkins is left thinking that maybe life with the Trotters wasn't so bad ...

《了不起的吉莉》启发精选纽伯瑞大奖少年小说系列之一，1979年纽伯瑞儿童文学奖银奖获奖作品。从小在不同的寄养家庭辗转生活的吉莉，聪明却叛逆。她顽劣外表下隐藏的是一颗善良的心和对母爱的渴望。来到新养母特罗特夫人的家后，吉莉旧习不改，说粗话、打架、挑衅老师，甚至偷钱逃家。但是，特罗特太太没有放弃吉莉，而是帮助她融入这个温暖的家庭。圣诞之际，吉莉的外婆前来认亲，要带她回家；此时，吉莉意识到自己需要的正是特罗特家带给她的爱与温暖。回到外婆家，见到妈妈，吉莉却发现妈妈并不爱她。最终，吉莉做出了自己了不起的决定。