On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

This is so much more than a typical YA book.

On top of that, there's her relationship with Jonah Griggs, one of the Cadets and a boy from her past, who knows her a little too much for comfort. Taylor tries to balance this responsibility with her own worries about Hannah's sudden disappearance and her belief that it is connected to her mother. Taylor is elected as a leader in the territory war games played by her school with the Townies (locals) and Cadets. Her closest friend and mentor is Hannah, a woman who lives on the edge of the school grounds. The story is of Taylor Markham, a girl who was abandoned by her mother as a young child and now resides in a boarding school for kids who are troubled, neglected or criminally inclined. All I can say is that my heart has been ripped out and shredded, my throat has sealed up with emotion, and when I finally get some sleep, I get the feeling I'll probably dream about Jonah Griggs. It's very difficult to put into words how I feel about On the Jellicoe Road. Melina Marchetta never fails to remind me why she is one of my favourite authors and, in my opinion, this is the best of her books I've read so far. There's a monster in my mirror with puffy bloodshot eyes because she stayed up most of the night, crying and reading On the Jellicoe Road. The moving, joyous and brilliantly compelling new novel from the best-selling, multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi and Saving Francesca. She needs to find out more, but this means confronting her own story, making sense of her strange, recurring dream, and finding her mother-who abandoned her on the Jellicoe Road.

Taylor's only clue is a manuscript about five kids who lived in Jellicoe eighteen years ago. She has to keep the upper hand in the territory wars and deal with Jonah Griggs-the enigmatic leader of the cadets, and someone she thought she would never see again.Īnd now Hannah, the person Taylor had come to rely on, has disappeared. Taylor is leader of the boarders at the Jellicoe School. Hannah, who found me on the Jellicoe Road six years ago. Hannah, who is too young to be hiding away from the world. And I tell him about Hannah, who lives in the unfinished house by the river. I tell him about the war between us for territory. About the Jellicoe School and the Townies and the Cadets from a school in Sydney.

On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta