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Adapted for the screen by the author from her enormously successful
novel about Josie Alibrandi and her relationship with her friends
and family in her last year at school. Includes stills from the
film and an introduction from the author.
For as long as Josephine Alibrandi can remember, it's just been
her, her mom, and her grandmother. Now it's her final year at a
wealthy Catholic high school. The nuns couldn't be any
stricter--but that doesn't seem to stop all kinds of men from
coming into her life.
Caught between the old-world values of her Italian grandmother, the
nononsense wisdom of her mom, and the boys who continue to mystify
her, Josephine is on the ride of her life. This will be the year
she falls in love, the year she discovers the secrets of her
family's past--and the year she sets herself free.
Told with unmatched depth and humor, this novel--which swept the
pool of Australian literary awards and became a major motion
picture--is one to laugh through and cry with, to cherish and
remember.
"MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother
wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with
limited options and she didn't bring me up to have limitations
placed upon me. If you know my mother, you'll sense there's an
irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the
Limitation Placers in my life."
Francesca battles her mother, Mia, constantly over what's best for
her. All Francesca wants is her old friends and her old school, but
instead Mia sends her to St. Sebastian's, an all-boys' school that
has just opened its doors to girls. Now Francesca's surrounded by
hundreds of boys, with only a few other girls for company. All of
them weirdos--or worse.
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's high spirits, she hardly knows
who she is. But she doesn't yet realize that she's more like Mia
than she thinks. With a little unlikely help from St. Sebastian's,
she just might be able to save her family, her friends,
and--especially--herself.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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