History Creator / MelinaMarchetta

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Melina Marchetta is an Australian YA author best known for her debut novel ''Literature/LookingForAlibrandi'', which is taught in classrooms around Australia and made into [[TheMovie a major motion picture]] starring Pia Miranda, Greta Scacchi and Anthony La Paglia. All of her works have won numerous awards and she is currently working on a screenplay for [[Literature/OnTheJellicoeRoad Jellicoe Road]].

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Marchetta was quite young when she wrote ''Literature/LookingForAlibrandi'', and was a High School teacher when writing the others. She's also of Italian descent, which pops up in her first two novels, ''Looking For Alibrandi'' and ''Saving Francesca''.

* ''The Piper's Son (2010)'', [[SequelHook a follow-up]] to ''Literature/SavingFrancesca'', focusing on a different character

'''Her works include:'''

Melina Marchetta is an Australian YA author best known for her debut novel LookingForAlibrandi, which is taught in classrooms around Australia and made into [[TheMovie a major motion picture]] starring Pia Miranda, Greta Scacchi and Anthony La Paglia. All of her works have won numerous awards and she is currently working on a screenplay for [[Literature/OnTheJellicoeRoad Jellicoe Road]].

MelinaMarchetta is an Australian YA author best known for her debut novel LookingForAlibrandi, which is taught in classrooms around Australia and made into [[TheMovie a major motion picture]] starring Pia Miranda, Greta Scacchi and Anthony La Paglia. All of her works have won numerous awards and she is currently working on a screenplay for [[Literature/OnTheJellicoeRoad Jellicoe Road]].

MelinaMarchetta is an Australian YA author best known for her debut novel LookingForAlibrandi, which is taught in classrooms around Australia and made into [[TheMovie a major motion picture]] starring Pia Miranda, Greta Scacchi and Anthony La Paglia. All of her works have won numerous awards and she is currently working on a screenplay for [[OnTheJellicoeRoad Jellicoe Road]].

* BittersweetEnding: LookingForAlibrandi and OnTheJellicoeRoad both end with [[spoiler: someone's death]].

* TrueCompanions: Except for ''Looking For Alibrandi'', each book focuses on building and/or maintaining these. OnTheJellicoeRoad had two groups.

!!Other works by MelinaMarchetta provide examples of the following tropes:

* BelligerentSexualTension: Between Tara Finke and Tom in SavingFrancesca and ''The Piper's Son.''

* DisappearedDad: LookingForAlibrandi (part of the plot deals with the dad coming back), OnTheJellicoeRoad (he [[spoiler: turns out to be dead]]), ''Finnikin of the Rock'' (he starts off the book [[spoiler: in jail but ends the book with his son]]), and ''The Piper's Son'' (part of Tom's issue is his dad [[spoiler: disappearing and reappearing during the book]]).
* DrivenToSuicide: Happens in [[spoiler: LookingForAlibrandi]] and several times in [[spoiler: OnTheJellicoeRoad]].

* ThereAreNoTherapists: SavingFrancesca and OnTheJellicoeRoad
* TrueCompanions: Except for LookingForAlibrandi, each book focuses on building and/or maintaining these. OnTheJellicoeRoad had two groups.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Marchetta was quite young when she wrote LookingForAlibrandi, and was a High School teacher when writing the others. She's also of Italian descent, which pops up in her first two novels, LookingForAlibrandi and SavingFrancesca.

* LookingForAlibrandi (1992)

* SavingFrancesca (2003)
* [[OnTheJellicoeRoad Jellicoe Road]] (American version called OnTheJellicoeRoad) (2006)

* Literature/TheLumatereChronicles
** Finnikin of the Rock (2008)
** Froi of the Exiles (2011)
** Quintana of Charyn (2012)
* The Piper's Son (2010), [[SequelHook a follow-up]] to SavingFrancesca, focusing on a different character
* The Gorgon in the Gully (for middle school age readers)

* TearJerker: Most of her work has scenes that definitely qualify. OnTheJellicoeRoad is run on this trope.

!!Works by MelinaMarchetta with their own trope pages include:

* LookingForAlibrandi
* SavingFrancesca
* OnTheJellicoeRoad

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* The Lumatere Chronicles

* Finnikin of the Rock (2008)

* {{Nakama}}: Except for LookingForAlibrandi, each book focuses on building and/or maintaining one. OnTheJellicoeRoad had two.