On the Jellicoe Road
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On the Jellicoe Road
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Narrated by:
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Rebecca Macauley
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By:
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Melina Marchetta
About this listen
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.
2009, AudioFile Earphones Award, Winner
2007, Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Book of the Year for Older Children, Short-listed
2007, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Young Adult Award, Short-listed
2009, The Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature, Winner
©2006 Melina Marchetta By arrangement with Penguin Group (Australia) (P)2006 Bolinda PublishingCritic Reviews
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- Jacalyn
- 05-04-2018
On the Jellicoe Road is the most detailed, enthralling and and well written book I have ever read!
I have never read a book more entertaining than On the Jellicoe Road. I have read and listened to this book over and over again and I will never get over the story. Every time you listen to it you notice another detail that ties the whole story together. The main story being told along side the out of order Manuscript leaves you guessing on every page.
The characters are so well developed, thought out and diverse that you can’t help but picture their faces, hear their voices and fall in love with every single one of them.
Rebecca Macauley reads the novel with the perfect amount of personality for each character, capturing the tone and attitude of every piece of dialog. It’s like she’s experiencing the moments Taylor Markham and the other participants of the territory wars experience.
Very well written, very well read, and very well received.
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- HERMZ
- 07-08-2023
On the Jellico Road or revolving door?
Good book. History replicates with a twist.
A lot of questions and searching, and people hiding the answers - WHY? I felt this was stretching it.
Although the timeline was pretty current, I felt the characters were not so much. They thought like people from an earlier era... 60's maybe. Ended very tidy... a bit too tidy for my taste. Overall, it was likeable and some laughs.
Narrator very good.
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- Gemma
- 06-11-2017
Reread over 4 times
I first read this book as a teenager and although it was hard to get into at first, then I couldn’t put it down! The story is beautifully written and twines effectively between two tales of friends that by the end of the book you end up wishing you were part of them.
Now as an adult I’ve come back to this book over and over again and still get as much joy out of it as I did all those years ago. Excellent narration. Thank you Melina Marchetta for this beautiful story, can’t wait to read what you come up with next!
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- Amanda
- 16-02-2018
Fantastic read!
One of my favourite books ever. Have read it so many times, and yet I cry every time
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