Please enter your name. Looking for Alibrandi is a captivating story with many twists and turns. Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2020.

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Like Looking for Alibrandi, Marchetta's first book, an award-winner that went on to become a highly successful film starring Pia Miranda, Greta Scacchi and Anthony LaPaglia, SAVING FRANCESCA is the story of a teenage girl caught at a time of family and personal crisis. Josephine Alibrandi is 17, and in her final year of school. As an Australian-Italian who grew up in Sydney this book speaks particularly to me.

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The way it should be. ", " Despite still being brilliant, this is my least favourite Marchetta book. John Marsden. Get this from a library! ", " I liked it, but at times I thought it could be better. (Publishers Weekly). 7 audio discs (approximately 8 hr.) If I had the time, I would love to listen in one sitting. Audible is $16.45/mo after 30-days. Submit your vote below to let us know you really crave this title! Would you listen to Looking for Alibrandi again? Rebecca Macauley, Narrated by:

Copyright © 2001-2020 OCLC. © 2005 - 2020 AudioBookStore.com - All Rights Reserved. ". After seeing (and LOVING) the movie when it first came out, I finally got around to reading the book. Buy a discounted audible edition of Looking For Alibrandi (Audio Product) from Australia's leading online bookstore. Please enter the message. Please enter the subject. Over 46,000 titles. You can easily create a free account. He quit school and turned his back on his music and everyone that mattered, including the girl he can't forget.

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Cancel online anytime. During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old Josie meets and must contend with the father she has never known.\"@, Export to EndNote / Reference Manager(non-Latin). Please try again. This is a nice coming of age novel, covering all the basis: romance – I’ve harboured a crush on Jacob Coote since my first listening –, the search for social and cultural acceptance and new family relationships and skeletons.

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It will make you cry though. Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day. I've been having a hard time trying to think of what to say in this review so I'm just going to list the things I love about this book: Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2015. I won't say anything about the details of the book because I want you to be pleasantly surprised on your own.

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Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year 11 at an all boy's school that has just started accepting girls. But all safety is shattered during the five days of the unspeakable, when the king and queen and their children are brutally murdered in the palace. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: Your request to send this item has been completed. Marchetta is incredible. Coming of age tale of an Australian girl with parents & grandparents who emigrated to Melbourne from Italy. Dealing with her mum and the ways of her Nonna are daunting enough as she prepares for her exams. They are thrown into a world where they find courage, initiative, spirit and wisdom, or they die. Melina Marchetta (born 25 March 1965) is an Australian writer and teacher. (not yet rated) Congratulations to the author.

She suddenly has to deal with having her father around for the first time in her life, falling in love and uncovering her family's secret background. ", " this is one of my favourite books of all time. I recommend the book and recommend the audio to all high school students who need a little extra help to get through a set work book. ", " The first of Melina Marchetta's books.

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I totally related to Josephine. http:\/\/id.loc.gov\/authorities\/subjects\/sh85021221> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/1152081768#Topic\/fathers_and_daughters>. ", " A beautifully written story of a teenager groing up with a big family, an out there mother, a daunting school and an even more daunting guy. ", " Had to read it for a drama assignment but it was pretty good Melina Marchetta is the acclaimed and multi-award–winning author of Finnikin of the Rock, an Aurealis Award winner; Jellicoe Road, a Michael L. Printz Award winner; Saving Francesca; and Looking for Alibrandi.

In the end though, I think it was a bit predictable. Despite all the turmoil, this is the year Josie discovers that emancipation doesn't mean escaping from your past. Filled with warmth and truth. Though Josie’s self-righteousness can become a tad irritating on occasion, on the whole she’s a very likable character.

Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Switch between reading the Kindle book & listening to the Audible narration with, Get the Audible audiobook for the reduced price of $7.49 after you. Beautifully well-written. Fiction, Juvenile audience, Audio book, etc. Looking For Alibrandi Note by William Brougham. She still misses her old friends, and, to make things worse, her mother has had a breakdown and can barely move from her bed. I kept picking out scenes as I was reading them, and marveling at how well the filmmakers & actors had done taking the clunky writing and turning into such a wonderful movie.

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Dealing with her mum and the ways of her Nonna are daunting enough as she prepares for her exams.

I'm so pleased I read this book...So much an Australian experience.

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Award-winning Australian author Melina Marchetta has created a strong and sassy role model in Josephine, whom girls with growing pains on both sides of the Pacific will love. Some features of WorldCat will not be available. Very easy to relate to and extremely difficult not to love. ©1992 Melina Marchetta (P)1998 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd by arrangement with Penguin Books Australia and Beyond Miall and Kershaw Films Pty Ltd. Get Audible Plus for $4.95 a month for your first 6 months. Sometimes you need to face up to who you are in order to set yourself free. Despite all the turmoil, this is the year Josie discovers that emancipation doesn't mean escaping from your past. Please enter the subject. The book is a must for anyone desiring to know what makes young adults tick. But Josie is about to discover real life gets in the way of her carefully-made plans. A real chicky book. The E-mail Address(es) field is required. This is a nice coming of age novel, covering all the basis: romance – I’ve harboured a crush on Jacob Coote since my first listening –, the search for social and cultural acceptance and new family relationships and skeletons.

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", " A simmply beautiful novel. ", " Not too terrible... unless you compare it to Jellicoe Road.

1 audio disc (MP3 CD) (approximately 7 hr., 40 min.) Looking for Alibrandi. ", " My hate for this book will follow me through life. She suddenly has to deal with having her father around for the first time in her life, falling in love, and uncovering her family's secret background.

I definitely saw the plot lines coming a mile away, which was not my experience when reading other books by Marchetta.

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Josephine Alibrandi is 17 and in her final year of school. John Marsden, Narrated by: After reading Saving Franchesca and Jellicoe Road, I'm reminded why I tend to read books by the same author in the order they are written, even if they are unrelated. Josephine Alibrandi has never known her father, and the lack of a father is a major problem in her Italian family. But Josie is about to discover real life gets in the way of her carefully-made plans. You may send this item to up to five recipients. [Melbourne] : Bolinda Audio Books, 2007, ©1992. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

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