
Woman Crush Wednesday: Melina Marchetta
by Erin
Popular Works: Looking for Alibrandi, Saving Francesca, Jellicoe Road (published as On the Jellicoe Road in Australia), The Lumatere Chronicles About Her: Melina Marchetta is an Australian young adult author and former English and History teacher. Her first two novels were awarded the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s Book of the Year, and in 2009 she received the American Library Association’s Michael L. Printz award for Jellicoe Road. Her first fantasy novel, Finnikin of the Rock, received Australia’s Aurealis Fantasy Award […]
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