Multi-award-winning, a bestseller and made into an award-winning feature film, Looking for Alibrandi has become a modern classic.
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.
3M Talking Book Award-NSW
Winner • 1993 • Talking Book
KOALA Children's Choice Awards
Winner • 1993 • Prize for Writing for Young Adults
BILBY Children's Choice Awards
Shortlisted • 1993 • Prize for Writing for Young Adults
KROC Children's Choice Awards
Shortlisted • 1993 • Prize for Writing for Young Adults
WAYRBA Children's Choice Awards
Winner • 1994 • Prize for Writing for Young Adults
BILBY Children's Choice Awards
Shortlisted • 1994 • Prize for Writing for Young Adults
CROW Children's Choice Awards
Shortlisted • 1994 • Prize for Writing for Young Adults
YABBA Children's Choice Awards
Shortlisted • 1994 • Prize for Writing for Young Adults
BILBY Children's Choice Awards
Winner • 1995 • Prize for Writing for Young Adults
BILBY Children's Choice Awards
Winner • 2000 • Older Readers
REAL Children's Choice Awards
Shortlisted • 2001 • Fiction for Older Readers