The Resource Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- 419 p.
- Note
- Previously published in 2006 in Australia under title: On the Jellicoe Road
- Isbn
- 9780061431838
- Label
- Jellicoe Road
- Title
- Jellicoe Road
- Statement of responsibility
- Melina Marchetta
- Subject
-
- trueRealistic fiction
- trueMother-separated teenage girls
- trueAustralia
- Abandoned children -- Juvenile fiction
- Emotional problems -- Fiction
- Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction
- trueBoarding schools
- Identity -- Fiction
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueAbandoned children
- Teenagers -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- trueChildren of drug abusers
- trueSchools
- Schools -- Fiction
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- trueSeventeen-year-old girls
- Abandoned children -- Fiction
- trueEmotional problems of teenage girls
- Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueTeenage girls
- Boarding schools -- Fiction
- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- Emotional problems of teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Australia -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- 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
- 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
- Award
-
- Michael L. Printz Award, 2009.
- West Australian Young Readers's Book Awards (WAYRBA), Avis Page Award, 2008.
- YALSA Best Books for Young Adults, 2009
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 285383
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Marchetta, Melina
- Dewey number
- [Fic]
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PZ7.M32855
- LC item number
- Je 2008
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/lexile
- 820
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
-
- 8
- 12
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Abandoned children
- Emotional problems
- Boarding schools
- Schools
- Identity
- Australia
- Teenagers
- Abandoned children
- Emotional problems of teenagers
- Boarding schools
- Schools
- Identity (Philosophical concept)
- Australia
- Target audience
- adolescent
- Label
- Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
- Note
- Previously published in 2006 in Australia under title: On the Jellicoe Road
- Control code
- ocn191931317
- Dimensions
- 19 cm.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- 419 p.
- Isbn
- 9780061431838
- Isbn Type
- (trade bdg.)
- Lccn
- 2008000760
- System control number
- (OCoLC)191931317
- Label
- Jellicoe Road, Melina Marchetta
- Note
- Previously published in 2006 in Australia under title: On the Jellicoe Road
- Control code
- ocn191931317
- Dimensions
- 19 cm.
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- 419 p.
- Isbn
- 9780061431838
- Isbn Type
- (trade bdg.)
- Lccn
- 2008000760
- System control number
- (OCoLC)191931317
Subject
- trueAbandoned children
- Abandoned children -- Fiction
- Abandoned children -- Juvenile fiction
- trueAustralia
- Australia -- Fiction
- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueBoarding schools
- Boarding schools -- Fiction
- Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction
- trueChildren of drug abusers
- Emotional problems -- Fiction
- trueEmotional problems of teenage girls
- Emotional problems of teenagers -- Juvenile fiction
- Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Juvenile fiction
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- Identity -- Fiction
- trueMother-separated teenage girls
- trueRealistic fiction
- trueSchools
- Schools -- Fiction
- Schools -- Juvenile fiction
- trueSeventeen-year-old girls
- trueTeenage girls
- Teenagers -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction
Genre
Member of
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- trueClassic Realistic Fiction (Teens)
- trueMichael L. Printz Award
- trueWAYRBA - Western Australian Young Readers' Book Awards : Avis Page Award
- trueYALSA Best Books for Young Adults: 2009
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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