Gilly十一歲,已經換過太多寄養家庭,每一個她都不喜歡,甚至不想喜歡。她聰明、嘴硬、誰也不讓,這讓大人頭痛,她卻引以為傲。當她被安排到Trotter太太家時,她認定這只是短暫的麻煩,計畫著要讓親生媽媽快點把她接走。但事情沒她想得簡單,計畫不但失敗,還讓她開始懷疑,自己是否錯過了什麼……Katherine Paterson以幽默又細膩的筆法,描繪一個假裝堅強卻渴望被愛的女孩。Newbery Honor BookWinner of the National Book Award for Children's LiteratureALA Notable Children's BookJane Addams Book AwardThis Newbery Honor Book from bestselling author Katherine Paterson will simultaneously tug on the heartstrings and cause laugh-out-loud laughter.Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all. She has a reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable, and that's the way she likes it. So when she's sent to live with the Trotters—by far the strangest family yet—she knows it's only a temporary problem.Gilly decides to put her sharp mind to work and get out of there fast. She's determined to no longer be a foster kid. Before long she's devised an elaborate scheme to get her real mother to come resc