2012-10-04

On the Jellicoe Road Reiew

by: 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 the leader of the boarders at the Jellicoe School. 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.

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 mother - who abandoned her on the Jellicoe Road.

perfect. perfect storytelling, perfect characters, just. perfect. this is one of the most UNIQUE stories i have ever read, so beautiful and captivating. when i first started of with this book i had heard a lot of beautiful things about it which gave me high expectations, and boy, this book rose above them.  
On the Jellicoe Road
xoxo Lihini

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