![]() ![]() Francesca doesn’t like this, but she clings to the idea of at least having these old friends and having people she can talk to. When she does see her old friends, all they do is make fun of the girls at Francesca’s new school. She doesn’t see much of her old friends, so it’s important to her to find new ones. Nevertheless, she tries to befriend them and find common ground. She only knows a handful of the other girls there, and they’re all very different from her. Sebastian’s, which was formerly all-boys and is now co-ed. Francesca is a typical teenage girl who just wants to fit in at school and enjoy time with her friends. ![]() Marchetta has won numerous awards over the span of her career, including the 1993 Children’s Book Council of Australia Award and the 2008 Aurealis Award. Published by Knopf in 2006, the book was praised for its humor and raw, honest treatment of family and friendship. Set in high school, it tells the story of a teenage girl trying to hold her family together when her mother suffers an acute depressive episode. Saving Francesca is a young adult contemporary novel by Melina Marchetta. ![]()
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