160 Pages
Ages 9-12
Summary
Gilly never really knew her mother. The young girl had been in foster care since before she could remember and she hated it. Gilly hated everything. She lived on the philosophy that the only way to survive was to look out for your self and take advantage of other people if it served your purposes. Gilly hadn't always been so cynical. She had once been loved by a family. She had even gone so far as to call her foster mother "momma." This was a thing of the past. Gilly's philosophy emerged on the day that the family moved to Florida, leaving her behind with the "trash." Ever since that day, Gilly set her mind to doing everything she could to drive away her foster families and figure out how to be reunited with the mother she had never known. From her third foster home, Gilly writes to her mother, telling her outrageous lies in order to provoke her to come get her daughter. When this doesn't seem to work, Gilly begins stealing money to save for a bus ticket. However, Gilly comes to love her new foster mother and just as she decides that she doesn't want to leave, she is picked up and taken away by her grand mother. It is at her grandmother's house that she learns that her mother had never cared about her. The woman she had been obsessing over for some time didn't love her at all.
This is an amazing book about learning to love and be loved. It is both hilarious and heart wrenching to read about the snot-nosed little girl who put up so many walls around her. She is a trouble maker and yet should be a heroine for every troubled child.
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