num_pages: 243
description: MOST OF MY friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn't allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn't bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you'll sense there's 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 what's best for her. All Francesca wants is her old friends and her old school, but instead Mia sends her to St. Sebastian's, an all-boys' school that has just opened its doors to girls. Now Francesca's surrounded by hundreds of boys, with only a few other girls for company. All of them weirdos or 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 realises that without her mother's high spirits, she hardly knows who she is. But she doesn't yet realise that she's more like Mia than she thinks. With a little unlikely help from St. Sebastian's, she just might be able to save her family, her friends, and especially herself.
language: English
title: Saving Francesca
titlecomplete: Saving Francesca
characters: Will Trombal, Jimmy Hailer, Siobhan Sullivan, Justine Kalinsky, Francesca Spinelli, Thomas Mackee, Tara Finke, Luca Spinelli
genres: Realistic Fiction, Coming Of Age, Australia, Mental Health, Young Adult Contemporary, Young Adult, Family, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 32780
places: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Children's Book Council of Australia Award
category: Book of the Year for Older Readers, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Canberra's Own Outstanding List (COOL) Awards
category: Older Readers, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALA)
category: Older Readers, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Young Australians' Best Book Award (YABBA)
category: Older Readers, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA)
category: Older Readers, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: S.A. Festival National Children’s Book Award
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: W.A. Young Readers Book Award (WAYRA)
category: Older Readers
publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers