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Summary: Finding Alibrandi
Review: Seventeen year old Josephine Alibrandi is a girl of Italian descent, who has been raised in Australia by her mother and her Nonna. Throughout the story, she encounters a range of challenges regarding family, ethnicity, suicide, relationships, sexuality, school and friends. She gets to experience the feeling of love for the first time and what it's like to have not only one, but three men included in her life. Her father, Michael Andretti, learns to love his daughter and helps guide her through her bumpy path of difficult situations. John Barton is a true friend who, having once been interested in being romantically involved with Josie, is now content to be best friends with Josie. Later on in the story, in despair, John comes to a realization that there is no reason for him to be living anymore, and he commits suicide. Jacob Coote is wilder and he makes Josie feel alive like no one else has ever made her feel before. I would highly recommend LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI to any adolescent readers. This novel should be read by any teenager who has ever felt lost at some point in his or her life. Once I picked up this book, I couldn't put it down, and at the completion of the novel, I couldn't help wishing that there was more to read. LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI is a novel that we can all benefit and learn from.
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Summary: Unbelievable School Book!
Review: I had to read this book a couple of years ago for school, it was on our booklist. It was the last book over the year we had to read and review in class so at the start of the year it sat in my locker gathering dust. Then school holidays came and I decided to read the book as the girl I sat next to in class said she read it and really liked it. Over the holidays I read it, (actually I read it in one day) and my eyes were all puffy and half closed the next by all the crying I did that night. It is a book I can relate to, and everyone else in the class did too, everyone loved the book. I'm sure if you read it, you will too.
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Summary: Today I fell in love
Review: I found this book to be like no other that I have ever read. I've read many books in my 16 years but never have I had felt so much from just from reading a single book. I understand a lot of the problems that Josie was going through from the over protective family to stress about a test that you need to pass in order to get a higher education. In the back of the book it said that the author Melina Marchetta has to teach Looking For Alibrandi to her students and I wish it was the case here in America. This book would help students realize that hey they are not the only onles that feel this way and that their is a solutions to some of lifes problems.
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Summary: Amazing Alibrandi
Review: Looking for Alibrandi is a powerful and thought provoking story about a young woman trying to find her place in a diverse country. Judged for her illegitemacy, social status, and nationality, Josephine has been teased and unaccepted all her life. Just when she thinks that things are finally starting to fall into place, it just gets even more complicated. Three men drop into the picture that will change her life forever. I think that this book is unbelievably realistic because it confronts many real life problems that other books are afraid to. Looking for Alibrandi deals with racism, suicide, and peer pressure, not just boys and makeup. I believe that this book accurately portrays Josie as a model teenager. Not because she makes good decisions, but because she represents things that many teenagers go through. As a teenager, I think that Melina Marchetta does a great job in developing a character that all people can relate to. Looking for Alibrandi gets my stamp of approval for reality, creativity, and for being just an all-around great book.
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Summary: I read it twice in 3 days
Review: I read this book a few summers ago while on vacation with my family. I finished the book, and then I immediately turned back to the first page to reread it because I wanted to make it last longer. As I read this book, I found it very true to my own life. The characters were very realistic, and I could see definate comparisons between Josie's friends and my own friends. This is a truly a wonderful book, one that has stuck with me for several years.
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Summary: "Looking For Alibrandi"- Why It's A Great Book!
Review: I loved the book "Looking For Alibrandi." The book is about Josephine Alibrandi's life in her last year of school. She's an Italian and living in Austrailia. Her mother had her when she was seventeen years old and all of the Italians are waiting for Josephine to make that same type of mistake. All in this year, she met her birth father who disappeared before her birth, realizes that her grandmother relates to Josephine more than she thinks, that she acts spoiled at times, and that she isn't as bad off as she thinks. She has a scholarship at St. Martha's, a school for wealthy Austrailians. Obviously, she didn't fit in that well. She gained three friends in her first year because they were all labeled as outcasts and then they formed a friendship. They thought they were the losers of the school, but Josephine discoved that she was wrong. She attracts two very popular Austrailians and she never thought she would be able too. At the end of the book she desides that she doesn't really care anymore about what other people think. She desides that she's not really an "Alibrandi" and starts the process of moving on with her life.
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Summary: sassy "coming of age" book
Review: Josephine Alibrandi is a smart sassy 17 year old finishing her last year of high school. She has been raised by her single parent mother, and her strict Nonna. The year is a big one for her, she meets her father for the first time and gets to know him, she falls in love, and she begins to understand her heritage, her Nonna and becomes proud of it. This is a really great book, with wonderful characters that really hit the mark. Josephine leaps right off the pages as does Jacob, her parents and her friends. I have seen the movie, which l also enjoyed and knew what was about to happen, but still it had me in tears. I was so happy for her when her father walked beside her at her school and she felt like "Wow, so this is how it feels to have a father". This girl really grows up during the book, and I hope the author gets around to writing more fantastic fiction.
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Summary: The best book ever written!
Review: I bought a copy of "Looking for Alibrandi" about a month ago, and I couldnt put it down once I started reading it. 17-year-old Josie Alibrandi and her friends Seraphina, Anna, Lee, John Barton, & Jacob Coote are all teenagers that you can relate to. They have their ups and downs, their good times, their bad times, and none of them are perfect...A sad, witty, and humorous book that is recommended to those who love a good read.
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Summary: Looking For Alibrandi
Review: The book "Looking for Alibrandi" was a very good book. However, I think that the movie was much better. I think that Josiphine was a very confussed girl to begin with but near the end she finds out who she really is. She is an Italian in heart and an Australian in life but she doesn't care. I would reccomend this movie for an older audience because the younger people may not get the whole story line. I feel the same way about the book beacuse the are a few bad words and the kids shouldn't know them.
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Summary: Looking for Alibrandi
Review: The book "looking for alibrandi" was inspiring for me and showed me about the multiculture of australia and how still after so long people are still racsit to people even after the long and the amount of time we have spent with each other. Also it was good in showing the people how to care for each other in a time of crisis. Josie also shows a strengh that a lot of people lack of and she is a good character to keep the book alive.
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