Title: Looking for Alibrandi (Keywords) and Author: Marchetta (Keywords)

"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 privileged girls' school. This is the year she meets her father, the y...

Josie Alibrandi has a lot to deal with right now. She's 17, got the dreaded HSC in front of her and the boy of her dreams seems completely out of reach. Then there's that other problem. She's a wog. Sure it's where Josie comes from but it's not where she feels she belongs. With her Nonna in one e...

Josephine Alibrandi is seventeen, and in her final year of school. Dealing with her mum and the ways of her Nonna are daunting enough as she prepares for her exams. But Josie is about to discover real life gets in the way of her carefully made plans. She suddenly has to deal with having her fathe...