On the Jellicoe Road

By Melina Marchetta

Subjects: Identity, fiction, Identity (Philosophical concept), Juvenile fiction, Emotional problems of teenagers, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Orphans & Foster Homes, Fiction, Self-perception, fiction, Children's fiction, Boarding schools, fiction, Boarding schools, Youth, fiction, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / School & Education / Boarding School & Prep School, Abandoned children, fiction, Australia, fiction, Teenagers, Emotional problems, Abandoned children, Identity, Schools

Description: 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.