Looking for Alibrandi
Dec 1993 · Penguin Group Australia
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Melina Marchetta's stunning debut novel Looking for Alibrandi is one girl's story of her final year at school, a year she sets herself free. Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen and in her final year at a wealthy girls' school. This is the year she meets her father, the year she falls in love, the year she searches for Alibrandi and finds the real truth about her family – and the identity she has been searching for.
A moving and revealing book, unusual for its honesty and its insight into the life of a young person on the brink of adulthood. Multi-award-winning, a bestseller and made into an award-winning feature film, Looking for Alibrandi has become a modern classic.
A moving and revealing book, unusual for its honesty and its insight into the life of a young person on the brink of adulthood. Multi-award-winning, a bestseller and made into an award-winning feature film, Looking for Alibrandi has become a modern classic.
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4.8
35 reviews
Tony Davison
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April 23, 2013
Watched the movie ages ago and finally read the book. Nice work from the author with some moving moments - feels real. Resonated with me as I am also part `ethnic`.
Paul Sophocleous
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August 4, 2013
I first read this book in high school almost twenty years ago and it was great then. Reading it again now, I can see so many more layers and hidden truths in this book. If you haven't already, you should read it, and if you have, you should read it again.
Kim Murph
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January 4, 2023
the best book I ever read as a teen never saw the movie didn't want to ruin the book and visions I had whilst reading it
About the author
Melina Marchetta is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author in more than twenty countries and eighteen languages. Her eighteen books range from beloved young adult fiction and fantasy through to contemporary and crime fiction, and works for younger readers. Her much-loved Australian classic Looking for Alibrandi swept the pool of literary awards when it was published, and was also released as a film, adapted by Marchetta, winning an AFI Award and an Independent Film Award for best screenplay, as well as the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award. In 2009 Marchetta won the prestigious Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association. Her most recent novel is The Place on Dalhousie. She lives in Sydney.
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