Melina Marchetta's On The Jellicoe Road

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Life is made up of the moments you been through, good or bad. For Taylor, these moments from both the past and present, pieced together to settle her past and change her future. In the novel On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta, Taylor Markham’s father died in a car accident and Taylors drug addicted mother abandoned her at a Gas station. Then a young lady named Hannah took Taylor in as her own. Taylor is currently the leader of her schools’ underground community. Now the territory wars have begun with the townies and the visiting military training cadets and Hannah has disappeared, Taylor also starts to wonder about her mother and who she is. So Taylor tries to use memories of the past and discoveries she’s making to find out where Hannah

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