At eleven, Gilly is basically nobody's child. If only she could find her beautiful mother, Courtney, and live with her, instead of this hideous foster family she's just been brought to! How can you hope that she, the perfect Gilly Known for her wildness and wit, will Hopkins tolerate Mamie Trotter, the fat, illiterate widow who is now her guardian? Fearless Gilly, with a predatory smile, plots against her new relatives and anyone who even tries to befriend her. And while she struggles to cope with the irresistible the desire to meet his mother and the fear of forever remaining an adopted child, involuntarily binds the reader to himself."