Melina Marchetta

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1992
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Lumatere Chronicles

1 - Finnikin of the Rock (Feb-2010)
2 - Froi of the Exiles (Mar-2012)
3 - Quintana of Charyn (Apr-2013)

Related Books

1 - Saving Francesca (Sep-2004)
2 - The Piper's Son (Mar-2011)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • Looking For Alibrandi

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    Josephine Alibrandi is smart, she’s feisty, she’s funny. She also happens to have no idea who her father is. For as long she can remember, it's been just her, her mom, and he grandmother. Now it's her last year at a wealthy Catholic high school....

  • Saving Francesca

    Related Books - 1

    Francesca is at the beginning of her school term in Year Eleven at an all boys' school that has just started accepting girls. She still misses her old friends, and, to make things worse, her mother has had a breakdown and can barely move from her be...

  • Jellicoe Road

    "What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More. Abandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen, is finally being confronted with her past. But a...

  • Finnikin of the Rock

    The Lumatere Chronicles - 1

    Finnikin was only a child during the five days of the unspeakable, when the royal family of Lumatere were brutally murdered, and an imposter seized the throne. Now a curse binds all who remain inside Lumatere's walls, and those who escaped roam the s...

  • Gorgon in the Gully

  • The Piper's Son

    Related Books - 2

    Out here tonight, under the dullest of moons, Tom feels as if he's the last man on earth. Six blocks east from the home he grew up in. Three blocks south from the university he dropped out of a year ago. Four blocks north of the bed he shared with Ta...

  • Froi of the Exiles

    The Lumatere Chronicles - 2

    Three years after the curse on Lumatere was lifted, Froi has found his home . . . or so he believes. Fiercely loyal to the Queen and Finnikin, Froi has been taken roughly and lovingly in hand by the Guard sworn to protect the royal family, and has le...

  • Quintana of Charyn

    The Lumatere Chronicles - 3

    The climactic conclusion of Printz Award winner Melina Marchetta’s epic fantasy trilogy! Separated from the girl he loves and has sworn to protect, Froi and his companions travel through Charyn searching for Quintana and building an army that wi...

  • Tell the Truth, Shame the Devil

    In the wake of a devastating bombing, a father risks everything to find out who was responsible. When Bish Ortley, a suspended cop, receives word that a bus carrying his daughter has been bombed, he rushes to be by her side. A suspect has already ...



  • The Place on Dalhousie

    'You look the type to break your father's heart.'
    'Yeah, but he broke mine first.'

    When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstak...

  • What Zola Did on Monday

  • What Zola Did on Tuesday

    From the author of Looking for Alibrandi comes this gorgeous series to engage and entertain newly independent young readers. Zola loves living on Boomerang Street with her mum and her nonna. Every day of the week is an adventure. But Zola has a probl...

  • What Zola Did on Wednesday

    From the author of Looking for Alibrandi comes this gorgeous series to engage and entertain newly independent young readers. Zola loves living on Boomerang Street with her mum and her nonna. Every day of the week is an adventure. But Zola has a probl...

  • What Zola Did on Thursday

    From the author of Looking for Alibrandi comes this gorgeous series to engage and entertain newly independent young readers. Zola loves living on Boomerang Street with her mum and her nonna. Every day of the week is an adventure. But Zola has a probl...

  • What Zola Did on Friday

    From the author of Looking for Alibrandi comes this gorgeous series to engage and entertain newly independent young readers. Zola loves living on Boomerang Street with her mum and her nonna. Every day of the week is an adventure. But Zola has a probl...

  • What Zola Did on Saturday

    From the author of Looking for Alibrandi comes this gorgeous series to engage and entertain newly independent young readers. Zola loves living on Boomerang Street with her mum and her nonna. Every day of the week is an adventure. But Zola has a probl...

  • What Zola Did on Sunday

    From the author of Looking for Alibrandi comes this gorgeous series to engage and entertain newly independent young readers. Zola loves living on Boomerang Street with her mum and her nonna. Every day of the week is an adventure. But Zola has a probl...

  • Zola and the Christmas Lights

    Celebrate community, kindness, hope and all the wonder of the festive season in a heartwarming Christmas picture book from the bestselling author of Looking for Alibrandi Melina Marchetta and joyous illustrator Deb Hudson. Celebrate the wonder of Chr...

Award-Winning Books by Melina Marchetta

Jellicoe Road
2009 Michael L. Printz Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Melina Marchetta has published 18 books.

Melina Marchetta does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Zola and the Christmas Lights, was published in February 2023.

The first book by Melina Marchetta, Looking For Alibrandi, was published in January 1992.

Yes. Melina Marchetta has 2 series.
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