Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

Saving Francesca by Melina MarchettaA memorable and much loved Australian classic told with humour, compassion and joy, from the internationally bestselling and multi award winning author of Looking for Alibrandi. Francesca is at the beginning of her second term in Year Eleven at an all boy's school that has just started accepting girls. She still misses her old friends, and, to make things worse, her mother has had a breakdown and can barely move from her bed. But Francesca had not

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