by Melina Marchetta
Melina Marchetta
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Melina Marchetta was born in Sydney Australia. Her first novel, Looking For Alibrandi was awarded the Children's Book Council of Australia award in 1993 for Older Readers and her second novel, Saving Francesca won the same award in 2004. Looking For Alibrandi was made into a major film in 2000 and won the Australian Film Institute Award for best Film and best adapted screen play, also written by the author. On the Jellicoe Road was released in 2006 and won the WAYRBA voted by teenagers in Western Australia in 2008. It also won the US Printz Medal in 2009 for excellence in YA literature. Her latest novel, Finnikin of the Rock was released in October 2008 and won the Aurealis Award for YA fantasy. It will be published by Candlewick in the US...more
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On The Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta avg rating 4.17 — 750 ratings — published 2006 8 editions |
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Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta avg rating 3.84 — 666 ratings — published 1992 17 editions |
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Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta avg rating 4.05 — 610 ratings — published 2003 18 editions |
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Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta avg rating 3.99 — 82 ratings — published 2008 3 editions |
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10 Short Stories You Must Read This Year by Robert Drewe, Anita Heiss, Thomas Keneally, Monica McInerney (Goodreads author) , Melina Marchetta, Peter Temple, Toni Jordan, Kathy Lette more... avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2009 |
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"What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
More."
— Melina Marchetta (Jellicoe Road)
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
More."
— Melina Marchetta (Jellicoe Road)
"I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit."
— Melina Marchetta (Saving Francesca)
— Melina Marchetta (Saving Francesca)
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"My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.
I counted.
It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said."
— Melina Marchetta (On The Jellicoe Road)
I counted.
It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said."
— Melina Marchetta (On The Jellicoe Road)
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