Author
Melina Marchetta
7 award wins, 8 nominations across 5 books.
Finnikin of the Rock
Published 2008-09-29 · 398 pages
Finnikin was only a child during the five days of the unspeakable, when the royal family of Lumatere were brutally murdered, and an imposter seized the throne. Now a curse binds all who remain inside Lumatere's walls, and those who escaped roam the surrounding lands as exiles, persecuted and despairing, dying by the thousands in fever camps.
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Looking for Alibrandi
256 pages
During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old Josie meets and must contend with the father she has never known.
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On the Jellicoe Road
Published 2006-08-28
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
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Saving Francesca
243 pages
Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed.
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The Piper's Son
Published 2010-03-01 · 328 pages
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