This 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 shes disliked them all. She has a reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable, and thats the way she likes it. So when shes sent to live with the Trotters--by far the strangest family yet--she knows its only a temporary problem.Gilly decides to put her sharp mind to work and get out of there fast. Shes determined to no longer be a foster kid. Before long shes devised an elaborate scheme to get her real mother to come rescue her. Unfortunately, the plan doesnt work out quite as she hoped it would....