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Cover artist
  
Marina Messiha

Publication date
  
October 1992

Pages
  
260 pp

Author
  
Melina Marchetta

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Hardcover)

Originally published
  
5 October 1992

Country
  
Australia

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Publisher
  
Penguin Australia/Orchard Books

Adaptations
  
Looking for Alibrandi (2000)

Characters
  
Josephine Alibrandi, Jacob Coote, Christina Alibrandi, Katia Alibrandi, Michael Andretti

Genres
  
Young adult fiction, Bildungsroman

Similar
  
Melina Marchetta books, Young adult fiction books, Classical Studies books

Looking for Alibrandi is the debut novel of Australian author Melina Marchetta, published in 1992. A film adaptation was made in 2000.

Contents

Awards

  • Won - CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers (1993)
  • Won - Books I Love Best Yearly: Older Readers Award (1995)
  • Won - Books I Love Best Yearly: Older Readers Award (2000)

    • Film adaptation

    Looking for Alibrandi (2000) starred Pia Miranda as Josephine Alibrandi, Anthony LaPaglia as her father, Michael Andretti, and Kick Gurry as her boyfriend, Jacob Coote. Melina Marchetta wrote the screenplay.

    References

    Looking for Alibrandi (novel) Wikipedia
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