Multi-award-winning, a bestseller andmade intoan award-winningfeature film, Looking for Alibrandi has become a modern classic.
Melina Marchetta'sstunning 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.
Amoving 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 andmade intoan award-winningfeature film, Looking for Alibrandi has become a modern classic.
By:
Melina Marchetta Imprint: Puffin Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 254g ISBN:9780140360462 ISBN 10: 0140360468 Pages: 260 Publication Date:05 October 1992 Recommended Age: From 9 to 12 years Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Winner of Children's Book Council of Australia Awards: Book of the Year - Older Readers 1993
Winner of Children's Book Council of Australia Awards: Book of the Year - Older Readers 1993.
Winner of Children's Book Council Queensland BILBY Awards: Older Reader 2000
Winner of Children's Book Council Queensland BILBY Awards: Older Reader 2000.
