Melina Marchetta
I'm dreaming of the boy in the tree. I tell him stories. About the Jellicoe School and the Townies and the Cadets from a school in Sydney. I tell him about the war between us for territory. And I tell him about Hannah, who lives in the unfinished house by the river. Hannah, who is too young to be hiding away from the world. Hannah, who found me on the Jellicoe Road six years ago.,Taylor is leader of the boarders at the Jellicoe School. She has to keep the upper hand in the territory wars and deal with Jonah Griggsâ€”the enigmatic leader of the cadets, and someone she thought she would never see again.,And now Hannah, the person Taylor had come to rely on, has disappeared. Taylor's only clue is a manuscript about five kids who lived in Jellicoe eighteen years ago. She needs to find out more, but this means confronting her own story, making sense of her strange, recurring dream, and finding her motherâ€”who abandoned her 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,.
Young Adult,Contemporary,Fiction,Mystery,Romance,Realistic Fiction,Cultural,Australia,Young Adult,Coming Of Age,Young Adult,Teen,Young Adult,Young Adult Contemporary
On the Jellicoe Road