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During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old Josie meets and must contend with the father she has never known.| Year: | 1999. |
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| Subject: | Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. Catholic schools -- Fiction. High schools -- Fiction. |
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| User Tags: | young adult, australian, australia, ya, australian author, family, teen, coming of age, italians, made into movie, multiculturalism, sydney, immigrants, romance, suicide, young adult fiction, children, children's, immigrant experience, teen fiction, 20th century, australian literature, contemporary, fathers, growing up, high school, teenagers, adolescent, australian fiction, belonging, cultural identity, identity, love, peer pressure, relationships, school stories, women, young adult literature, catholic, catholic school, catholic schools, change, childhood, children's literature, conformity, cultural diversity, death, debut, emancipation, ethnic, family relationships, female hero, female protagonist, films, first person, freedom, friendship, girl book, girls, grade school, humour, identity crisis, illegitimacy, intelligence, italian heritage, italian immigrants, italian immigration, italy, kids, lent and lost, life, looking, pacific, prejudice, race, realistic fiction, school days, social awareness, social class, teenage, teenage girls, unwed mothers, young adult librarian's choice, youth |
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| Rating: | 5 out of 5: They loved it |
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Sixteen-year-old Francesca could use her outspoken mother's help with the problems of being one of a handful of girls at a parochial school that has just turned co-ed, but her mother has suddenly become severely depressed.| Year: | 2004, c2003. |
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| Subject: | Sexism -- Fiction. Catholic schools -- Fiction. Schools -- Fiction. |
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| User Tags: | depression, young adult, family, ya, australia, australian, friendship, teen, young adult fiction, high school, realistic fiction, relationships, romance, private school, mental illness, australian author, catholic school, mothers, chick lit, first love, friends, teenage girls, australian fiction, catholic schools, contemporary, growing up, humor, love, mother, mother-daughter relationships, mothers and daughters, psychology, sexism, sydney, teen fiction, teenagers, young adult literature, 11th grade, 21st century, academia, adolescence, adolescent, angst, belonging, boarding school, brother, catholic, chick book, children's, children's fiction, crisis, dating, daughter, daughters, disease, doom, drama, dysfunctional, england, father, fathers, female, female protagonist, fitting in, girl book, girls, high school students, identity, impact, individuality, italians, kids, life, loneliness, mental health, mother daughter, new friends, new school, new south wales, new student, nuns, pacific, prize winner, realistic, robert, saga, saving, school stories, schools, teen angst, teen relationships, teenage, weight, ya novel |
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Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.| Year: | 2008. |
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| Subject: | Teenagers -- Australia -- Fiction. Abandoned children -- Fiction. Emotional problems of teenagers -- Fiction. |
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| User Tags: | australia, boarding school, ya, young adult, friendship, family, teen, mystery, printz award, abandonment, death, identity, australian, realistic fiction, relationships, romance, printz, coming of age, love, abandoned children, orphans, teen fiction, tragedy, young adult fiction, growing up, printz winner, murder, schools, secrets, suicide, teenagers, war, young adult literature, adolescence, australian literature, cliques, contemporary, drug addiction, drugs, emotional problems, family history, family problems, first love, flashbacks, friends, girl, high school, loss, memory, mothers, realistic, self-discovery, 11th grade, 2 interrelated stories, 21st century, accidents, adolescent, adoption, adults, alcoholic parent, aussie, australian author, australian fiction, belonging, car accidents, chick lit, children, coming of age stories, complicated, contemporary fiction, country life, danger, daughters, death of a parent, depression, dreams, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, famiglia, family information, female, female hero, grief, guilt, hannah, happy, hermit, heroes, history, jude, juvenile literature, kidnapping, kids, light, loneliness, love story, magical realism, mental illness, military school, mothers and daughters, newbery, origins, otherness, printz honor, pw, reader's advisory, reality, sad, saga, school stories, sexuality, substance abuse, tate, teen girl, teen pregnancy, teenage, violence, weird, women authors, young love |
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Now on the cusp of manhood, Finnikin, who was a child when the royal family of Lumatere was brutally murdered and replaced by an imposter, reluctantly joins forces with an enigmatic young novice and fellow-exile, who claims that her dark dreams will lead them to a surviving royal child and a way to regain the throne of Lumatere.| Year: | 2010, c2008. |
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| Series: | Marchetta, Melina, |
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| Subject: | Magic -- Fiction. Kings and rulers -- Fiction. Fantasy fiction. |
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| User Tags: | fantasy, young adult, australian, family, ya, 1, australia, australian author, children's fiction, dark, honour, horror, joey, quest, romance, survival, war, young adult librarian's choice |
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| Rating: | 5 out of 5: They loved it |
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After his favorite uncle's violent death, Tom Mackee watches his family implode, quits school, and turns his back on music and everyone who matters, and while he is in no shape to mend what is broken, he fear that no one else is, either.| Year: | 2011. |
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| Subject: | Dysfunctional families -- Fiction. Grief -- Fiction. Dropouts -- Fiction. |
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| User Tags: | family, follows saving francesca, grieving, realistic, romance, teen, the piper's son, young adult librarian's choice |
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| Rating: | 5 out of 5: They loved it |
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