Title: Meet Marly
Author: Alice Pung
Published: 28/01/2015
ISBN: 9780143308492
It's 1983 . . . and Marly is just trying to fit in at Sunshine Primary School. But being a refugee from Vietnam doesn't make things easy, and when Marly's cousins come to stay and end up at the same school, her friends make fun of them. How can Marly stay loyal to her cousins and keep her school friends as well?
Meet Marly and join in her adventure in the first of four exciting stories about a daring girl torn between two worlds.
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Alice Pung is an award-winning Melbourne author whose most popular works include “Unpolished Gem,” “Her Father’s Daughter,” “Laurinda,” and “One Hundred Days”. She also edited the anthology “Growing Up Asian in Australia”. In 2022, Alice’s book Laurinda was adapted into a successful Melbourne Theatre Company play.
She has won the WA Premier’s Literary Award, the Australian Book Industry Award for Newcomer of the Year, the Ethel Turner Prize for Literature, and been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
In 2022, Alice was awarded an Order of Australia medal for her services to literature.