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.

[perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]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.[/perfectpullquote]

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

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