Publisher, Bolinda Audio (December 2009)

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Winner Michael L. Printz Award

ALA Best Book for Young Adults

Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book

Abandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen, is finally being confronted with her past. But as the reluctant leader of her boarding school dorm, there isn’t a lot of time for introspection. And while Hannah, the closest adult Taylor has to family, has disappeared, Jonah Griggs is back in town, moody stares and all.

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. If Taylor can put together the pieces of her past, she might just be able to change her future.

From the award-winning and best-selling author of Looking For Alibrandi and Saving Francesca, both highly acclaimed audio productions by Bolinda Audio, comes a much-anticipated story that will be another favourite among teenagers and adults alike.

About the Author: Melina Marchetta lives in Sydney where she works as a teacher. Her first novel, Looking for Alibrandi, swept the pool of literary awards for young adult fiction in 1993, winning the CBC Book of the Year Award (older readers), the Multicultural Book of the Year Award, the Kids Own Australian Literature Award (KOALA) and the Variety Club Young People's category of the 3M Talking Book of the Year Award. It was also Highly Commended in the NSW Family Therapy Awards, and in 1996 was shortlisted for the prestigious German Prize for Your Literature. More recently, it is the winner of the 2000 Fairlight Talking Book Awards most outstanding talking book for the past 10 years in the Young People's category.

About the Performer: Rebecca Macauley is a talented and award-winning children’s narrator. She has appeared in a variety of television programs, including the internationally popular series Neighbours and the Australian drama Blue Heelers. Her most recent work includes the US feature film Darkness Falls, and the children’s television series Wicked Science. Other books narrated for Bolinda Audio include Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta and Abyssinnia by Ursula Dubosarsky. Saving Francesca was named one of the Top 10 Audiobooks in 2004 by AudioFile Magazine (US).