It's hard to believe in love when you've never been loved. It’s hard to accept it when your mother lives far from you, and in three years you’ve moved from one family to another for the third time, but you consider yourself not just good, but dazzling, thunderous throughout the whole area, the magnificent Galadriel Hopkins, the “Gilly monster” , which everyone is afraid of. And suddenly the House appears. Real, with a mother, younger brother and uncle, where they love and are always waiting, and are ready to accept you for who you are: a liar, a fighter and a thief. A story about a difficult girl who is trying to find a sense of home, despite the fact that she is constantly sent away to one or the other foster parents because of her alleged bad behavior. Gilly begins to hate the people around her and secretly dreams of returning to her own mother, idealizing her, although her mother abandoned her. Author Katherine Paterson is an American writer, winner of the H.C. Award. Andersen 1998.