Jellicoe Road

Jellicoe Road

2006 • 438 pages

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Average rating4.8

15

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.

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Hmm. I think I'd give 3 stars to the first half and 4 stars to the second half of this book. I couldn't get too into the whole “war games” aspect of the book. But I really liked the ~backstory screenplay~ although it took me awhile to figure out what was going on.


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