Melina Marchetta

I feel like I should like this book more than I do, maybe I'm missing something, maybe it's the writing style, maybe it's because I don't relate well to the characters, I'm not sure.
This is the second book I've read by Melina Marchetta. Looking for Alibrandi was on my high school required reading list and I thought coming back to her writing 10 years on and not being required to read this I might have changed feelings but both books have left me feeling pretty meh.

Small pet peeve - there is no way a primary school would do The Sound of Music as it's musical and no way that a gr 4 would be cast as the Captain and be singing Edelweiss as a solo. (However this is a very small detail!! :P )… (plus d'informations)

'Another book I got for free from Sync.com that completely makes up for the one I wasn’t too thrilled with; This book came out in Australia first, where it won the 2008 West Australia Young Readers Book (WAYRB) Award for Older Readers, and then after it came out here in the U.S. in 2008, it won the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award from the American Library Association.
I’ve read very few books that mention the Australian bush, so the location was a nice change. The reader’s accent was also fun. I guess if you read the print version, it’s clear right away that there’s a 2nd story that’s occasionally being interjected, because the print changes to handwriting. I had to replay the prologue and first one or two chapters to figure it out. This is a very well written, engaging story that involves a young teen, who having been abandoned by her mother at age 11, needs to get past some trust issues. There’s MUCH more to it than that, but I don’t want to give it away.
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