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Looking For Alibrandi

Looking For Alibrandi. Plot Summary.

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Looking For Alibrandi

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  1. Looking For Alibrandi Plot Summary

  2. Looking For Alibrandi tells us the story of _____ Alibrandi, a ___ year-old schoolgirl who is being raised by her single mother, _______. Josie’s ______, Katia Alibrandi, is fiercely protective of the family reputation and Josie regards her regular______ visits to her grandmother with deep______. She is _____ by her ______ heritage and the restrictions it imposes in her social life. Josie’s life is complicated when her ____, Michael ______ returns to Sydney and enters her life for the ____ time. • Josie is a _______ student at the exclusive St Martha’s Catholic School for Girls and is studying for her Higher School Certificate. Josie is ____ and inquisitive but unsure about her _____ status at the College; consequently her closest friends (Sera, Lee and Anna) are ‘wogs’ and ‘outsiders’ like herself. Her chief ____ at school is Ivy Lloyd, known as ______ Ivy. Josie is a passionate _______ and ________ ________ which she views as practice for her chosen career as a ________. Her friend and rival from the boys’ college is John Barton, a young man who seems to have all the attributes Josie thinks she wants for herself. John is the son of a ______ minister who has high expectations for him. Josie’s first _______ is Jacob Coote, a ‘skip’ working-class boy who attends a public High School and has little ________.

  3. During the school year of her High School Certificate Josie learns to ______ the disparate influences in her life. She becomes____ to her father and learns that she is loved by both her _____. Her greatest _____ is from the _____ in her life, especially her grandmother, who gradually reveals family secrets and personal _____ Through her _______ with her father Josie comes to understand the _____Christina made to bear and _____ her. Her relationship with Jacob teaches her that she is unwilling to _____ herself and that her ambitions are intact, while John Barton’s _______ death teaches her about her own _____. Josie Alibrandi’s _______ year at school is a year of challenge and discovery.

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