Melina Marchetta
Paperback | Pages: 290 pages Rating: 4.13 | 46464 Users | 6761 Reviews
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| Original Title: | On the Jellicoe Road |
| ISBN: | 0670070297 (ISBN13: 9780670070299) |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://melinamarchetta.wordpress.com/on-the-jellicoe-road-2/ |
| Characters: | Taylor Markham, Jonah Griggs, Chaz Santangelo, Raffy, Ben, Hannah, Tate, Fitz, Jude, Webb, Hannah (Narnie) |
| Setting: | New South Wales(Australia) Australia |
| Literary Awards: | Michael L. Printz Award (2009), Queensland Premier's |
| Literary Awards: | Nominee for Young Adult Book Award (2007), W.A. Young Readers Book Award (WAYRA) for Older Readers (2008), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Nominee for Older Children (2007), Cybils Award Nominee for Young Adult Fiction (2008) |
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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 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.
The moving, joyous and brilliantly compelling new novel from the best-selling, multi-award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi and Saving Francesca.
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| Title | : | On the Jellicoe Road |
| Author | : | Melina Marchetta |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | 1st edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 290 pages |
| Published | : | August 28th 2006 by Penguin Australia |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Mystery. Realistic Fiction. Cultural. Australia |
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Ratings: 4.13 From 46464 Users | 6761 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books On the Jellicoe Road
"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?" This quote belongs to Stephen King, but it describes the soul of Melina Marchetta's Jellicoe Road perfectly.Jellicoe Road is the story of friendships that form your world, friendships so wonderful that it's easy to fall to pieces when they break. It is the story of abandonment and loss and learning to deal with it. It is the story of love, intense to the extreme with the generous helping of teen angst. InA lot of people think that Henry David Thoreau* went to Walden to live a solitary life. I felt like that until I actually went to Walden Pond. Imagine my surprise when some friends and I decided to go for a hike, go for a swim and check out the scenery--we left Boston around 9...and we got there by 9:30. Yeah right, HDT, I could live deliberately in the woods, too, if I knew my transcendentalist cronies would bring me a Cinnabon and some pumpkin ale once in awhile.** Nevertheless, Thoreaus idea
'On the Jellicoe Road' is the first book I've read/listened to by this author. After all of the glowing reviews for this one, I was prepared to be blown away. Unfortunately, it just didn't work out that way for me. It ended up being an "okay" story for me.My first problem has less to do with the actual story, and more to do with the format that I chose. I listened to the Audible edition and that was a big mistake. The problem didn't stem from the quality of narration, so much as the complexity
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. But it was worth it.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. It's very difficult to put into words how I feel about On the Jellicoe Road. All I can say is that my heart has been ripped out and shredded, my throat has sealed up with emotion, and when I
-----------------------------------------------Another end of year and another Jellicoe read.Get it? Cuz Jellico Road and now it's Jellicoe read? I'll just leave now.Buddy read withI'll always blame youBlack belt in friendshipHug masterReading 10 books? I call that weekend--------------------------------------What a way to end 2018, crying alone in my room :)--------------------------------------Half this book I was: ????The other half I was: on the verge of tears
From this distance everything is so bloody perfect. This will not be a proper review, because On the Jellicoe Road turned me into ruins. Quite possibly, my favorite book of the year, because it is so unique and so gut-wrenching and so enrapturing it deserves the title. This book is not merely a reading experience; this book is a journey. One filled with two emotional plotlines, past and present, that overlap in places only to thread themselves together in a masterful and sad, yet agonizingly
Hes the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and its not about his face, but the life force I can see in him. Its the smile and the pure promise of everything he has to offer. Like hes saying, Here I am world, are you ready for so much passion and beauty and goodness and love and every other word that should be in the dictionary under the word life?Sometimes, guys, simply reading a book once is not enough. You find that reading it a second time offers you a whole other reading experience.
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