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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... read more
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- Josie
- Jacob Coote
- John Barton
- Anna
- Michael Andretti
- Josephine Alibrandi
- Sera
- Nonna Katia
- Christina
- Lee
- Francesco
- Marcus Sandford
- Roberto
- Norma
- Zio Ricardo
- Greg Sims
- Sister Louise
- Zia Patrizia
- Jozzie
- Anton Valavic
- Angelo Pezzini
- Redfern
- Carly
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“You're going to go on living. Because living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it takes only ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time, whether it"s giving birth to a baby or being a housewife or a barrister, or a soldier. You've accomplished something. Yo throw that away at such a young age, is the biggest tragedy.”
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when you know all the answers there’s no room for dreaming.”
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PANIC was my first reaction to the multiple choice options that lay on my desk in front of me.
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This is book 925 of 986 in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Memoiren einer baskischen Kuh. ( Ab 10 J.)., and followed by There Will Be Wolves.
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- Melina Marchetta (Author)
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Publication Date: 1992
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Awards edit
- Children's Book Council of Australia (1993: Book of the Year: Older Readers, Winner)
Subjects edit
- Books › Teens › Social Issues
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