the 2009 ABIA (Australian Booksellers Industry Awards) Book of the Year for Older Children, and was shortlisted for the 2009 CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers. In the USA Finnikin has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Booklist and the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. Marchetta has also written short stories including Twelve Minutes, part of the Books Alive anthology "10 Short Stories You Must Read This Year", along with reviews and opinion pieces for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and the Australian Literary Review. She has been a writer-in-residence around the country, as far north as Thursday Island and as far south as Hobart. Her fifth novel, The Piper's Son was released in Australia in 2010 and is an accompanying novel to Saving Francesca, but through the perspective of another character in the book. She has been working on getting the Jellicoe Road movie script into production, while also working on writing the script for Saving Francesca. In 2016, she published Tell The Truth, Shame The Devil. Melina went on to collaborate with Kathryn Barker on a book When Rosie Met Jim/ Shoeboxes: Volume 22. In 2019, she released The Place on Dalhousie. Marchetta's most recent publications have been part of a junior fiction series entitled What Zola Did. Personal life Marchetta lives in Sydney. Marchetta makes visits to schools to talk about her books. She also attends interviews, book signings, book club meetings at libraries and bookshops and gives talks to students about her novels. Marchetta has a blog on which she announces book updates, interviews and thoughts and anything in relation to writing and her novels. Awards and nominations Won – CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers for Looking for Alibrandi (1993) Won – Film Critics Circle of Australia, Best Screenplay – Adapted for Looking for Alibrandi (2000) Won – New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Script Writing Award for Looking for Alibrandi (2000) Won – Australian Film Institute Award, Best Adapted Screenplay for Looking for Alibrandi (2000) Won – BILBY Award: Older Readers winner for Looking for Alibrandi (2000) Shortlisted – South Australia Premier's Awards, Children's Literature Award for Saving Francesca (2004) Won – CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers for Saving Francesca (2004) Shortlisted – Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA), Australian Book of the Year: Older Children for On the