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Looking for Alibrandi

Looking for Alibrandi

Author(s): Melina Marchetta

Location(s): Australia, Sydney

Genre(s): Romance

Era(s): 1990s

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For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it’s just been her, her mther, 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 no nonsense wisdom of her mother, 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 humour, 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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A fantastic coming of age book.

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