Looking for Alibrandi (novel)
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
<templatestyles src="Module:Hatnote/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Author | Melina Marchetta |
---|---|
Cover artist | Marina Messiha |
Country | Australia |
Language | English |
Genre | Young adult novel, bildungsroman |
Publisher | Penguin Australia/Orchard Books |
Publication date
|
October 1992 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
Pages | 260 pp |
ISBN | 0-531-30142-7 |
OCLC | 39508243 |
LC Class | PZ7.M32855 Lo 1999 |
Followed by | Saving Francesca, 2003 |
Looking for Alibrandi is the debut novel of Australian author Melina Marchetta, published in 1992. A film adaptation was made in 2000.
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.[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Looking for Alibrandi at IMDb
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Categories:
- Books with missing cover
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- 1992 novels
- Australian young adult novels
- Australian novels adapted into films
- Novels set in Sydney
- Debut novels
- Novels by Melina Marchetta
- Aurealis Award-winning works
- CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award winning works
- BILBY Award winning works
- Australia stubs
- 1990s novel stubs