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Saving Francesca

Saving Francesca( )
Author: Marchetta, Melina
Read by: Macauley, Rebecca
ISBN:978-1-74093-114-4
Publication Date:Apr 2004
Publisher:Bolinda Publishing Pty, Limited
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $77.95
Book Description:

My old school, St Stella's, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior Collage, but my mother wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn't bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother you'll sense there's an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of Limitation Placers in my life. Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year Eleven at an all boys' school that has...
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Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.708 x 6.045 Inches
Book Weight:1.1 Pounds
Author Biography
Marchetta, Melina (Author)
Melina Marchetta was born on March 25, 1965 in Australia. She is a writer and teacher who earned a teaching degree from the Australian Catholic University. She then got a job teaching at St Mary's Cathedral College, Sydney. Her first novel, Looking for Alibrandi was released in 1992. Looking for Alibrandi swept the pool of literary awards for young adult fiction in 1993 including the coveted CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award. Her second novel, Saving Francesca was released in 2003, followed by On the Jellicoe Road in 2006. Marchetta's fourth novel, the fantasy epic Finnikin of the Rock, was released in October 2008. It has since won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel and the 2009 ABIA (Australian Booksellers Industry Awards) Book of the Year for Older Children. Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil (2016) is her latest book.

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