- Title:
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On the Jellicoe Road
- Written by:
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Melina Marchetta
- Read by:
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Rebecca Macauley
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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8 hours 52 minutes
- Published:
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September 01 2006
- Available Date:
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September 01 2006
- Age Category:
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Young Adult (13+)
- ISBN:
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1741635608
- APN / ISBN-13:
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9781741635607
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Young Adult Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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International bestseller
Five Starred Review on Amazon
Winner AudioFile Earphones Award 2009
Shortlisted Australian Book Industry Award / Book of the Year for Older Children 2007
Shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards / Young Adult Award 2007
Winner The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature 2009
"This roller coaster ride of a novel grabs you from the first sentence and doesn't let go."
Printz Award Committee Chair Mary Arnold
A highly anticipated follow-up from the bestselling author of Looking for Alibrandi and Saving Francesca.
Taylor Markham is now a senior at the Jellicoe School, and has been made leader of the boarders. She is responsible for keeping the upper hand in the territory wars with the townies, and the cadets who camp on the edge of the school's property over summer. She has to keep her students safe and the territories enforced and to deal with Jonah Griggs - the leader of the cadets and someone she'd rather forget. But what she needs to do, more than anything, is unravel the mystery of her past and find her mother - who abandoned her on the Jellicoe Road six years before. The only connection to her past, Hannah, the woman who found her, has now disappeared, too, and the only clue Taylor has about Hannah and her mother's past is a partially written manuscript about a group of five kids from the Jellicoe School, twenty years ago.
"Taylor Markham, an Australian high school student, spends her senior year trying to make sense of her personal history in this well-crafted coming-of-age story. The plot builds smartly as connections are made and seemingly unrelated pieces slot into place. Rebecca Macauley guides and compels the listener as the narrative jumps back and forth in time and switches point of view. She's equally believable as kid and adult, as teen boy and teen girl, and she's especially adept at communicating the full, riotous range of teen emotion. The mood swings, from sarcastic to despairing to intimate to playful and back again, could have been overdone, but instead they feel authentic every step of the way."
AudioFile Magazine
"A great read."
Amazon