Published: 1 December 1993
ISBN: 9781742284163
Imprint: Penguin eBooks
Format: EBook
Pages: 276

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Looking for Alibrandi

Melina Marchetta

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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.

Published: 1 December 1993
ISBN: 9781742284163
Imprint: Penguin eBooks
Format: EBook
Pages: 276

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About the author

Melina Marchetta

Melina Marchetta is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author in more than twenty countries and eighteen languages. Her seventeen 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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Awards & recognition

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

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What Zola Did on Saturday by Melina Marchetta and Deb Hudson | Book trailer

Buy now: https://www.penguin.com.au/books/what-zola-did-on-saturday-9781760895211 A wonderful children’s series celebrating community, friendship and kindness from the bestselling author of Looking for Alibrandi. Fun, heartwarming stories full of mischief and humour, sure to charm and engage newly independent young readers. Zola loves living on Boomerang Street with her mum and her nonna. Every day of the week is an adventure. But Zola has a problem. No matter how much she tries, she can't keep out of trouble. Like on Saturday, when it’s tomato day at Nonna Rosa’s and Zola is helping out . . . Collect all seven stories in the series. One for every day of the week! #WhatZolaDidonSaturday #MelinaMarchetta #DebHudson