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
