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Saving francesca
Saving francesca











saving francesca

Melina has written for ABC-TV's Dance Academy. Printz Award from the American Library Association for On the Jellicoe Road, and Melina's screenplay for this book is currently set to be made into a major film with an international cast to be directed by Looking for Alibrandi director Kate Woods. In 2009 Marchetta won the prestigious Michael L. Melina Marchetta is one of Australia's most successful writers of young-adult fiction and is a best-selling and critically acclaimed author in more than twenty countries and in eighteen languages. Melina Marchetta is the Printz-winning author of Jellicoe Road, as well as Looking for Alibrandi and Finnikin of the Rock. Simultaneously humorous, poignant, and impossible to put down, this is the story of a girl who must summon the strength to save her family, her social life, and-hardest of all-herself. Then there's Francesca's mother, who always thinks she knows what's best for Francesca-until she is suddenly stricken with acute depression, leaving Francesca lost, alone, and without an inkling of who she really is. The boys are no better, from Thomas, who specializes in musical burping, to Will, the perpetually frowning, smug moron that Francesca can't seem to stop thinking about. Her only female companions are an ultra-feminist, a rumored slut, and an impossibly dorky accordion player. Sebastian's, a boys' school that pretends it's coed by giving the girls their own bathroom. A compelling story of romance, family, and friendship, with humor and heart, perfect for fans of If I Stay, The Spectacular Now, and Looking for Alaska. I just felt like I was in good company.Before there was Eleanor and Park, there was Francesca and Will. It was one of the most original stories I’d read for a while and I really cared for those characters and was sad to see them go out of my life. Finnikin made a few mock Printz lists and I remember someone writing that Shipbreaker put Finnikin to shame so obviously I had to read the novel that put mine to shame! Shipbreaker is a wonderful novel. It’s not quite fantasy and not quite historical but I remember bursting out crying at the end from the sheer beauty of the experience.

saving francesca

I think the US title is The Returning by Christine Hinwood. There’s another Australian novel that came out a couple of years ago, out in the US this year. It’s truly wonderful and I’ve handed it out to so many people and they’ve loved it. There’s an Australian novel called Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley that’s coming out in the US in 2012. This year has already been a big writing year for me, but I managed to read a few novels over the Christmas break.













Saving francesca