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Meet Marly

Title: Meet Marly

Author: Alice Pung

Published: 28/01/2015

ISBN: 9780143308492

About the text

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.

Number of Copies Available

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About the author

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.