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Saving Francesca

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By Melina Marchetta
Publisher Random House Children's Books - (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
Saving Francesca
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MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldnt allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didnt bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, youll sense theres an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life. Francesca battles her mother, Mia, constantly over whats best for her. All Francesca wants is her old friends and her old school, but instead Mia sends her to St. Sebastians, an allboys school that has just opened its doors to girls. Now Francescas surrounded by hundreds of boys, with only a few other girls for company. All of them weirdosor worse. Then one day, Mia is too depressed to get out of bed. One day turns into months, and as her family begins to fall apart, Francesca realizes that without her mothers high spirits, she hardly knows who she is. But she doesnt yet realize that shes more like Mia than she thinks. With a little unlikely help from St. Sebastians, she just might be able to save her family, her friends, andespeciallyherself.

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58655 words58,655 words
256 pages256 pages
Lexile 770LLexile 770L
Grade 7 to 12Grade 7 to 12
Age 12-17Age 12-17
Published 2004Published 2004

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Book ISBN:

9780375829826

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