Lisdalia by Brian Caswell

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It's bad enough being the smartest kid in the school, but when you're a girl, and when your father still thinks it's a man's world, and when you never learned to back down from an argument, it's even worse. Lisdalia has all these problems . and more. Of course, it helps if you have a couple of really good friends, like Mike and Tanja, and a teacher who cares, but in the end, when things get serious, it's who you are inside that counts. Who ever said it was easy being a kid? LISDALIA is the show more second volume in Brian Caswell's critically acclaimed Boundary Park Trilogy which began with Mike and concludes with Maddie. Lisdalia won the 1995 Multicultural Children's Literature Award and was Highly Commended in the 1995 Human Rights Award for Children's Literature. show less

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Although this book is less than 100 pages long, it manages to capture the struggles of a young Italian girl as she battles parent expectation versus her own needs to be independent. Lisdalia is a gifted child struggling against her father's wish for her to serve her older brothers and himself just as her mother has done. But Lisdalia is a child of modern Australia, and she doesn't subscribe to the post-war subserviency of her mother's generation, much to her father's chagrin. Then her father becomes very ill and Lisdalia must look inside herself to see whether her principles are indeed worth fighing for. A well-written book with multiple character narratives. This is the second book after "Mike" but I hadn't read "Mike" and I still show more understood what was happening. Very good for migrant, feminist issues show less

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