Saving Francesca

Rating: 3/5 (85 Reviews)
Isbn:9780141317991
Author:Melina Marchetta
Pages:256
Publisher:Puffin Books

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 all-boys 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 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 mothers high spirits, she hardly knows who she is. But she doesnt yet realise 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, and especially herself.