Jellicoe Road Characters

When you're seventeen-years-old, drama and identity crises happen pretty frequently. For Taylor Markham, though, there's a painful reality underlying this that kind of makes her a super hero—afte...

From the time Taylor's mom abandons her on the Jellicoe Road, Hannah is the only guardian Taylor knows. And yet it's kind of a bizarre relationship. Taylor actually lived with Hannah for a few year...

Ooh la la. What would a young adult novel be without a love interest? What makes the relationship between Jonah—the hardened, take-no-prisoners leader of the Cadets—and Taylor so fascinating is...

Jessa McKenzie is that kid that puts fear in the hearts of camp counselors and youth leader figures everywhere. She's kind of wild, tells bizarre stories to freak people out, and worst of all, won'...

Of the original five from the Jellicoe Road, Jude is the only one who has no direct connection with the accident—he first encounters the group when he replants the poppy memorial to their familie...

Tate Markham forged a lifelong connection with Webb and Hannah when she climbed out of her family's own vehicle and "squeezed though the glass and the steel and climbed over her own dead just to be...

Of the original five from the Jellicoe Road, Fitz McKenzie is simultaneously the group's hero and resident psycho. He smokes cigarettes, drinks bad whiskey, constantly gets expelled from school, an...

Ben Cassidy may be Taylor's deputy in the territory wars, but we all know that it's really Raffaela, Taylor's bestie, who makes stuff happen behind the scenes—especially since she's a Townie by b...

Santangelo may be the leader of the Townies, but most importantly, he plays a critical role in Taylor's quest for her identity. His father, a cop, was the young officer who both arrived on the scen...

Taylor's childhood friend, Sam, is the key to solving the mystery of what's happened to Tate. The child of her mom's neighbor, Eve, Sam and Taylor were thrown together a lot while their mothers did...

To paraphrase John Lennon, you may say Webb's a dreamer—except, as it turns out, he actually was the only one. The leader of the original five, he's the glue that holds them altogether, and his d...

Like many of the characters in Jellicoe Road, we get to see two versions of Santangelo's dad—the young cop who visits the scene of the Markham/Schroeder accident and investigates Webb's disappear...

Along with Raffaela, Ben is pretty much the only friend Taylor has (at least at the beginning of the book), and he isn't exactly the most popular guy at Jellicoe School. The guy has a serious pench...

Anson Choi is Jonah Griggs's second-in-command for the Cadets' side of the territory wars. While he and Jonah are likely spending hours plotting their next move, we don't get to see it because the...

One of the three factions in the territory wars, the Cadets are a group of students from military school who come to Jellicoe every September to spend six weeks camping in the bush as part of a "li...

The second of the three factions in the territory wars comes from the Jellicoe School, a government-run boarding school for wards of the state, as well as some local kids and "the children of alter...

An overview, if you will. In the grand scheme of the territory wars, the Townies are master negotiators, know the lay of the land better than almost anyone, and are deftly skilled in the fine art o...

The principal of Jellicoe School, Mr. Palmer typically only shows up as a vehicle for information or to act as the chief authority figure when things get out of control between the factions, such a...

Richard, leader of Murrumbidgee House and next in line to assume command of the Underground Community, is Taylor's arch-nemesis when it comes to all things territory wars. He's the first person to...