On the Jellicoe Road

By Melina Marchetta

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

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.