![]() ![]() But I must have forgotten how amazing her writing really is in the few years since I've read her books. Looking For Alibrandi was on our school's curriculum, but was replaced before I could study it. My school librarian recommended The Piper's Son when the class I had in the library got boring (guess how many times the teacher can re-explain quadratic factorisation to the class before Skye goes crazy?). I've read books by Melina Marchetta before. If Taylor can put together the pieces of her past, she might just be able to change her future. In this absorbing story by Melina Marchetta, nothing is as it seems and every clue leads to more questions as Taylor tries to work out the connection between her mother dumping her, Hannah finding her then and her sudden departure now, a mysterious stranger who once whispered something in her ear, a boy in her dreams, five kids who lived on Jellicoe Road eighteen years ago, and the maddening and magnetic Jonah Griggs, who knows her better than she thinks he does. ![]() And while Hannah, the closest adult Taylor has to family, has disappeared, Jonah Griggs is back in town, moody stares and all. But as the reluctant leader of her boarding school dorm, there isn't a lot of time for introspection. More.Ībandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen, is finally being confronted with her past. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. ![]()
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