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Looking for Alibrandi: Australian Children's Classics

Looking for Alibrandi: Australian Children's Classics 2

by Melina Marchetta
Hardback
Publication Date: 26/03/2014
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One of Australia's best loved children's classics, Looking for Alibrandi will stay with you always

I'm beginning to realise that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes when they don't, they can turn out just a little bit better.

Every so often, there comes a story so brilliant and lively and moving that it cannot be left in the past.

Rediscover the magic of our country's most memorable children's books in the Penguin Australia Children's Classics series of stories too precious to leave behind.

ISBN:
9780670077786
9780670077786
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
26-03-2014
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Australia
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
344
Dimensions (mm):
183x137x26mm
Weight:
0.48kg
Melina Marchetta

Melina Marchetta is one of Australia's most successful writers of young-adult fiction and is a best-selling and critically acclaimed author in more than twenty countries and in eighteen languages.

In 2009 Marchetta won the prestigious Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association for On the Jellicoe Road, and Melina's screenplay for this book is currently set to be made into a major film with an international cast to be directed by Looking for Alibrandi director Kate Woods. Melina has written for ABC-TV's Dance Academy. Finnikin of the Rock, Book One of the Lumatere Chronicles,was first published in Australia in 2008, followed in 2010 by the companion novel to her award-winning book Saving Francesca, The Piper's Son, long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award and short-listed for many other literary awards in Australia and internationally.

Melina is also the author of The Gorgon in the Gully, which takes up the story of On the Jellicoe Road's Jonah Griggs's family, and stars his younger brother Danny in this story for younger readers. Book Two in the Lumatere Chronicles, Froi of the Exiles, was published in 2011, and Book Three, Quintana of Charyn, was published in 2012. 2012 also marked the twenty-year anniversary of Melina Marchetta's first novel Looking for Alibrandi, the much-loved Australian classic, which was made into a major motion picture and has sold more than half a million copies in Australia.

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This edition of an Australian classic, Looking for Alibrandi is absolutely stunning! I am so glad that I chose to purchase this edition.

Having only read half of the novel so far, I cannot give a full review. However, I can say that I know I'm going to love it. Marchetta's writing is flawless and her characters well thought-out.

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Looking For Alibrandi is the first novel by Australian author, Melina Marchetta. The year that Josephine Alibrandi turned seventeen was filled with life-changing events: she had to pass her HSC; she met her father for the first time; she fell in love; she learned some shocking facts about her family; and someone close to her committed suicide. She also learned the importance of family, of knowing her history, of being responsible, of having good friends and of being one. Marchettas novel touches on reputation, on the stigma of illegitimacy in certain cultures, on sex in young adults, on the assimilation of different cultures and on the expectation to follow in parents footsteps. It is easy to see how this novel would appeal to younger readers: the issues are relevant even if references to songs, events and personalities mean that it is a bit dated now. It is no surprise that it won the 1993 Childrens Book of the Year Award for Older Readers, the 1993 Multicultural Book of the Year Award and the 1993 Variety Club Young Peoples Category of the 3M Talking Book of the Year Award. A moving read.

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