I am especially appreciative of the hospitality shown on my Leeton, Colleambally, and Cowra trip in March 2005, which introduced me to the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan rivers. Thank you Margaret and John Devery, Trish and Annabell Malcolm, Neil and Tom Gill, and Vic and Narelle Rossato.
And Patrick and Ben, thanks for coming along and pointing out the rice, citrus, and road kill.
About the Author
Melina Marchetta lives in Sydney. She is also the author of the award-winning novels SAVING FRANCESCA, LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI, and FINNIKIN OF THE ROCK. LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI was released as a major Australian film.
Visit her online at www.melinamarchetta.com.au.
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Praise
“This roller coaster ride of a novel grabs you from the first sentence and doesn’t let go. You may not be sure where the ride will take you, but every detail—from the complexities of the dual narrative to the pangs of first love—is pitch perfect.”
—Printz Award Committee Chair Mary Arnold
“Suspenseful plotting, slowly unraveling mysteries, and generations of romance shape the absorbing novel.”
—The Horn Book
“While the gripping boundary battles among the three factions raise the reader’s pulse, Taylor’s search for Hannah and her relationship with Jonah, the stoic cadet commander, charge the story with unwavering intrigue. Readers will find themselves ensnared in the story’s fascinating, intricate structure. A beautifully rendered mystery.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Marchetta has a knack for nuanced characterizations and punchy dialogue.”
—ALA Booklist
“The interwoven lives of Taylor and the doomed teenagers from the past create a complex tale with some great twists that readers will not see coming.”
—VOYA
“The book uncompromisingly starts with the fragments unconnected, leaving readers teased by a mystery they can’t even begin to piece together even as they’re enticed by the taut intensity of the atmosphere and Australian author Marchetta’s impeccable, long-striding style.”
—BCCB (starred review)
“Elegiac passages and a complex structure…with elements of romance, mystery, and realistic fiction.”
—School Library Journal
—ALSO BY MELINA MARCHETTA—
Looking for Alibrandi
Saving Francesca
Finnikin of the Rock
Credits
Cover art © 2008 by Image100 Photography / Veer & Photographer’s Choice Photography/Veer
Cover design by Jennifer Heuer
Copyright
JELLICOE ROAD. Copyright © 2006 by Melina Marchetta. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Marchetta, Melina.
[On the Jellicoe Road]
Jellicoe Road / Melina Marchetta.—1st American ed.
p. cm.
Previously published in 2006 in Australia under title: On the Jellicoe Road.
Summary: Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
ISBN 978-0-06-143185-2
[1. Abandoned children—Fiction. 2. Emotional problems—Fiction. 3. Boarding schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction. 5. Identity—Fiction. 6. Australia—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M32855Je 2008 2008000760
[Fic]—dc22 CIP
AC
EPub Edition © February 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200733-9
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