false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg 82434 17 <i>MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn&#8217;t allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn&#8217;t bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you&#8217;ll sense there&#8217;s an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life.</i><br><br>Francesca battles her mother, Mia, constantly over what&#8217;s best for her. All Francesca wants is her old friends and her old school, but instead Mia sends her to St. Sebastian&#8217;s, an all-boys&#8217; school that has just opened its doors to girls. Now Francesca&#8217;s surrounded by hundreds of boys, with only a few other girls for company. All of them weirdos&#8212;or worse.<br><br>Then one day, Mia is too depressed to get out of bed. One day turns into months, and as her family begins to fall apart, Francesca realizes that without her mother&#8217;s high spirits, she hardly knows who she is. But she doesn&#8217;t yet realize that she&#8217;s more like Mia than she thinks. With a little unlikely help from St. Sebastian&#8217;s, she just might be able to save her family, her friends, and&#8212;especially&#8212;herself.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i> 1369647 book 2003 Saving Francesca total:766|5:275|4:300|3:151|2:30|1:10| 766 3098 1108 114 82437 0786273097 9780786273096 42 7 4.04 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82437.Saving_Francesca 5 2 false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri May 18 21:02:40 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 26 21:34:01 -0800 2007 more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 5 2 false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 15:24:18 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 15:39:20 -0700 2009
- I could write better than that when I was 15!

- I can do that!

- I'll never be able to write that well!

There are variations within each category of course. I...more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 3 1 false Sun Sep 07 17:03:54 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 16:06:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 4 1 false Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 05 17:58:43 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 10:39:18 -0800 2008
Obvio...more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 5 2 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 08:30:20 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 09:39:03 -0800 2009 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 5 0 false Thu Jun 04 00:25:58 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 00:26:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 5 0 false Sun Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 12:23:41 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 12:25:06 -0700 2009 Saving Francesca is by Australian author Marlina Marchetta (of newfound Jellicoe Road fame) and is an absolutely wonderful YA novel. Saving Francesca is about sixteen-year-old Francesca Spinelli and is set in Sydney, Australia. Francesca (Frankie) h...more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 4 0 false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 18:58:04 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 18:58:44 -0700 2009
Review: Ah, I could read Melina Marchetta’s books ...more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 4 0 false Tue Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 20:46:39 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 10:39:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 5 0 false Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 06:22:06 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 06:24:30 -0700 2009
"The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighb...more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 5 1 false Sat Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 15:42:35 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 29 19:13:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 4 0 false Sun Jan 25 18:42:39 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 18:57:48 -0800 2009 Francesca Spinelli goes to a school called St Sebastians School for Boys but it recently opened for girls as well. Francesca lives with her mother Mia, her father Robert, her brother Luca and their dog, Pinocchio. One morning Mia does't get out of...more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 5 0 false Sat Jul 18 08:03:22 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 08:08:03 -0700 2009
Saving Francesca provides a fascinating look into the ravages of depression, not as seen through the first-hand victim, but as seen through the ...more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 4 0 false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 06:59:08 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 10:59:20 -0700 2009
I loved this book, stayed up too late to finish it not because I had to know what was going to...more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 4 0 false Wed Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri May 08 08:21:59 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 08:28:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 82437 0786273097 9780786273096 42 7 4.04 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82437.Saving_Francesca 3 0 false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 05:08:14 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 05:22:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 5 0 false Mon Oct 20 17:14:11 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 17:20:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 5 0 false Tue May 05 12:01:20 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 12:01:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 4 0 false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 01:36:34 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 01:39:53 -0800 2009
The beginning of this book, until the first half of the story, is a little dreary. It falls flat and I find myself getting confused.

However, I like the way the plot thickens and how the character grows, and as secrets slowly unfold, ...more...]]> 82434 0375829830 9780375829833 638 94 4.04 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171021699m/82434.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82434.Saving_Francesca 5 0 false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 01:54:22 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 01:54:55 -0700 2009
the character personalities and the r...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=82434