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Awards:   Short-listed for Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers' Choice 2003 Shortlisted for Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers' Choice 2003.
Author:   Melina Marchetta
Publisher:   Penguin Random House Australia
ISBN:  

9780143000976


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 June 2006
Recommended Age:   From 14 years
Format:   Paperback
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  • Short-listed for Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers' Choice 2003
  • Shortlisted for Nielsen BookData/ABA Book of the Year Award - Booksellers' Choice 2003.

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A memorable and much-loved Australian classic told with humour, compassion and joy, from the internationally bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi. Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year Eleven at an all boy's school that has just started accepting girls. She still misses her old friends, and, to make things worse, her mother has had a breakdown and can barely move from her bed. But Francesca had not counted on the fierce loyalty of her new friends, or falling in love, or finding that it's within her power to bring her family back together. A memorable and much-loved Australian classic told with humour, compassion and joy, from the internationally bestselling and multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi.

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Author:   Melina Marchetta
Publisher:   Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:   Penguin Random House Australia
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.228kg
ISBN:  

9780143000976


ISBN 10:   0143000977
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   05 June 2006
Recommended Age:   From 14 years
Audience:   Young adult ,  Teenage / Young adult
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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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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