The Great Gilly Hopkins!

What kind of books do you like? Do you like action, adventure, drama, romance........ The Great Gilly Hopkins is a new berry honor book. I would say its a dramatic book than anything else. I tried to read the book a long time ago and I never got in to it. This week I saw it on the self and I picked it up and this time around I really liked it. Threw out the whole book I keep thinking don't do it Gilly! I recommend this book, it made me cry a one part near the end, that's how good it was.
The book follows a girl named Gabriella Hopkins who moves from one foster home to another. When she was little she had a very sweet lady that was her foster parent Gabriella loved her until the lady moved and left her behind. Ever since then Gabriella has made sure to cause as much trouble as possible and to make sure she never loves anyone but her real mother. She moves from town to town from foster parent to foster parent until she gets to a lady named Mrs. Trotter. Trotter as Gilly calls her is desperate to make things work out for Gilly, and Gilly is desperate to see her real mother Courtney. Gilly gets a letter from her mother and decides to arrange by herself a trip to see her mother, but what Gilly does not get is that her mother does not want her. Trotter also has a foster boy named William Ernest that Gilly comes to like, she calls him W.E., she liked to scare the boy until the end where she realizes he is not as dumb as she thought he was. Gilly is followed around by a girl that lives with her grandma because her mother and father left her, Gilly tries to act as nice as possible to Agnes Strokes because she knows she will need her later. Trotters has Gilly go and get the neighbor for dinner, he is a blind old man that Trotter feeds ever night. Gilly is worried about staying any longer, she writes a letter to her mother telling her that she would come soon. She is asked to read a book to Trotter and the neighbor Mr. Randolph, since they both can read. She goes to Mr. Randolph's house to pick a book and while in his house she finds a book with money behind it, before she could check for more she hears Trotter coming and calling for her. She stuffs the money that she has in her pocket. That night she comes up with a plan to get home to her mother. The plan involves Agnes Strokes, and W.E., she succeeds with the plan. She fails when she gets to the train station and is sent home to a unhappy Trotter. Her mother gets a letter and Courtney sends her mother to get Gilly. Gilly is mad that she has to go, she realizes that she loves this home. Its to late thought, Gilly's grandma comes to get her and they leave for home, her grandma tells her that she did not even know that she had a granddaughter. Gilly is unhappy and she wished she never wrote the letter to her mother. Gilly gets news that her mother is coming, Gilly thinks that her mother is coming to get her and bring her lovely daughter home! Does it work out or not? Does Gilly go with her mother? Does her mother even love her like she said in the letter?
The Great Gilly Hopkins is a wonderful book, you should read it!