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Original Title:	Looking for Alibrandi
ISBN:	0375836942 (ISBN13: 9780375836947)
Edition Language:	English URL https://melinamarchetta.wordpress.com/looking-for-alibrandi-3/
Characters:	Josephine Alibrandi, Jacob Coote, John Barton, Christina Alibrandi, Katia Alibrandi, Michael Andretti
Setting:	Sydney, New South Wales(Australia)
Literary Awards:	New South Wales Premier's Literary Award for Script Writing Award (2000), Children's Book Council of Australia Award for Book of the Year: Older Readers (1993), Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA) for Secondary (1993), Books I Loved Best Yearly (BILBY) Awards for Older Readers (2000), West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA) for Older Readers (1994) South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult Book Award (2002), W.A. Young Readers Book Award (WAYRA) (1994), Fairlight Talking Book of the Year NSW for Best Book (2000), Australian Multicultural Children's BOTY Award (1993)

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For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it’s just been her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it’s her final year at a wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn’t be any stricter—but that doesn’t seem to stop all kinds of men from coming into her life. Caught between the old-world values of her Italian grandmother, the nononsense wisdom of her mom, and the boys who continue to mystify her, Josephine is on the ride of her life. This will be the year she falls in love, the year she discovers the secrets of her family’s past—and the year she sets herself free. Told with unmatched depth and humor, this novel—which swept the pool of Australian literary awards and became a major motion picture—is one to laugh through and cry with, to cherish and remember.

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Title	:	Looking for Alibrandi
Author	:	Melina Marchetta
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 313 pages
Published	:	May 9th 2006 by Knopf Books for Young Readers (first published October 5th 1992)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Contemporary. Fiction. Romance

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Theres no denying that Melina Marchetta is a literary goddess, but Looking for Alibrandi just isnt that good. - Every Marchetta fan who read her debut novel after being blown away by her other book(s). This book was nowhere near as amazing as the author's other works, but I didn't expect it to be either. Marchetta's writing and characterization has gotten a lot better over the years, and gone from average to stunning.Family relationships: BI really liked the relationships in the Alibrandi

Reread: April 2018If you have been following me on Twitter and Instagram then you'd know that I recently went to Sydney and found old covers of Alibrandi (and bought them, obvs).Reread this one on the plane home and the setting totally came to life for me now that I know how Sydney looked like. GOD I MISS SYDNEY SO MUCH-Reread: Jan 2018[Frankie Spinelli voice] Oh my God I'm so devastated-My Twitter reading thread: HERE.Reread: June 2016I skim Marchetta all the time but this is my first proper

When I was in school, we routinely had to complete projects about our heritage. People asked (and still ask) what are you? meaning what is your nationality. A lot of these projects ended up with discussions about why third or fourth generation Americans still call themselves Irish, Italian, Korean, Filipino, Greek, etc. instead of saying they are American first. My blood is pretty watered down at this pointIrish, Swedish, German, Spanishbut it really doesnt matter. Im sure kids in other

this book is like a dragon egg. it is somewhat unusual compared to others of its kind, and it is pretty, but you know that when it hatches it is going to let loose some magnificent beast beyond human reckoning.marchetta is a magnificent dragon.and this book is good, and you can see the beginnings of what she will become, but it is definitely a first novel, before she understood her own power.i reluctantly love josie alibrandi (although we are not friends, so i must call her josephine) she is a

Things dont turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they dont, they can turn out just a little bit better. If anyone would ask me what makes up the best YA contemporary novel, Id simply say, Read Looking for Alibrandi." It makes me appreciate that Ive read this just now because had I read it years ago, the rest of these YA contemporaries would have probably been a little letdown. To tell you honestly, nothing about the plot is too complex to make it special. Its basically a story

5★sI loved this, and reading it shortly after reading The Getting of Wisdom and Behind the Sun made an interesting contrast. Josephine Alibrandi is telling her own story at the age of 18 about her last year of high school, her background, and her pals. Shes an out-of-place wog on scholarship who has a few good friends amid the snobs.The Getting of Wisdom is a story told by Laura, describing her early years at a private school, her background, and her pals in the late 1800s. Shes an impoverished

The first Marchetta. The only one I hadn't read. It was as precious to me as a last born in Charyn and I kept it hidden away for as long as I could. And then Carla declared that it was time to break the emergency glass on this book.Josephine Alibrandi had me from the beginning. I knew I was dealing with a kindred spirit when on page 5 she says,"Believe me, I could write a book about problems. Yet my mother says that as long as we have a roof over our head we have nothing to worry about. Her