Book: Looking for Alibrandi
Author: Melina Marchetta
Pages: 260
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing
Reviewed by: Christy (Age 15)
Amazon.com Price: $19.99
Purchase: Here
Fact: Adapted into a film in 2000 starring Pia Miranda.

Looking for Albrandi was published October 1992 and since has become widely popular as a young adult novel. The story follows an Italian girl, Josie, who has to deal with everyday pressures and asspects of a teenager. She feels out of place as a scholarship student at a girls' school and her schoolmates don't hesitate to remind her that she's a "wog". But then she doesn't feel she belongs with her Sicilian family either. She's got the HSC ahead of her and the boy of her dreams, seems out of reach. Her mother Christina bore her out of wedlock and now her real father Michael Andretti is back in town. And it's all in an ordinary year of a 17-year-old Italian. The book talks about the issues of youth suicide, peer relationships and racism. I'll give it 5 out of 5!