The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
This well written book geared for 3rd grade and up will have many kids wondering what Gilly Hopkins will think of next to get out of foster care. After spending all most all her life in foster care Gilly is determined to get her real mother to save her from the awful foster homes she seems to think she is in. After being one of the most notorious foster kids around, and when he is finally sent away to a new family, she finds out that they might be one of the strangest families yet. This is when she comes up with her elaborate plan to get her mother to "rescue" her, but things seem to go a different direction for her.
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