Publisher's synopsis
Multi-award-winning, a bestseller and made into an award-winning feature film, Looking for Alibrandi has become a much-loved modern classic.
I’ll run one day. Run for my life. To be free and think for myself. Not as an Australian and not as an Italian and not as an in-between. I’ll run to be emancipated.
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 finds the real truth about her family – and the identity she has been searching for. The year she sets herself free. Multi-award-winning and a bestselling modern classic beloved by so many, Looking for Alibrandi will stay with you always.
Awards
- 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
