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About Melina Marchetta
Australian writer and teacher
Melina Marchetta is an Australian writer and teacher, known for her young adult novels and for the books that have made her a familiar name in contemporary Australian fiction. She is best known for Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca and On the Jellicoe Road. Her work has been recognised with the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers twice, in 1993 and 2004, and with the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award for Jellicoe Road, given by the American Library Association for the year's best book for young adults.
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- “It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like you…”Melina Marchetta
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- “The boy in the tree sobs uncontrollably when I tell him about the Hermit and my mother, yet his eyes light up…”Melina Marchetta
- “He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the wors…”Melina Marchetta
Truth: more sayings
- “The more you give, the more you will have to give.”Debasish Mridha
- “Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surre…”Paul Tillich
- “Everyone who knows us knows how we always encourage players to speak out, to be open and honest, to be critic…”Joachim Low
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Books by Melina Marchetta
Looking for Alibrandi
2006
Finnikin of the rock
2008