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By Marchetta, Melina
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-53133-142-2
- Publisher
- New York : Orchard Books, 1999.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 1999
Gr 8-Up Marchetta tackles a lot of difficult issues in this first novel. Her protagonist, a senior at a Catholic girls' school in Australia, is an illegitimate child who meets her father for the first time about 35 pages into the book. By the story's end, the two have established a framework for a continuing relationship. Josephine is also working through some romantic feelings. For several years she has had a crush on the imminently respectable and wonderfully sensitive John, bu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
