Have you been looking for a good book lately? Then you have come to the right place. I am going to tell youabouta book that has a little spunk. The book is called: Looking For Alibrandi and it was written by: Melina Marchetta. Looking For Alibrandi is a book about a girl named Josephine Alibrandi and what she goes through each day in life. She lives with her mom, goes to a  private catholic school, she has an Italian grandmother who is very strict and has two guys that are falling madly in love with her.
    Jospehine’s dad moves back to town and she doesn’t know what to do. Her grqandmother tries to get Josephine to meet her father, but at the same time her mom isn’t sure she wants her to meet him. Josephine is trying to hide her feelings and saying that she doesn’t want to meet him and if she does she will just look right through him. One of the characters in the book ends up committing suicide. But I cannot tell you who or any more because, I don’t want to ruin the story for you.
     This story takes place in the continent of Australia, in the city of Syndey, Adelaide and in the suburb of Syndey. Some of the characters in this book are Josephine Alibrandi, her mother, Josephine’s four girl friends, Michael Andretti, her grandmother, Jacob Coote, John Barton and a bunch of other people.
     I don’t think that there is one book that I could campare this book to. This book was so well written, that I can’t think of any book that I have read in the past to compare it to. If there were any type of book that I haven’t read yet that could compare to this it would probably be about a romance in a foreign country.
     I enjoyed this book because, the author used very descriptive words. When I was reading,the sentencesflowed together just like a calm stream passing through a thick green forest. The author had written this book sooo well that I was able to see what it would have been like to live in Australia in the early 90’s.