On the Jellicoe Road

This first half of this book was so inscrutable I almost gave up. It is very worth sticking with. I'd read Looking For Alibrandi years ago so I knew there was potential, the plot is just very obfuscated here. In the vaguest terms, this is a book about a teenage girl in Australia with a troubled past who is attending a boarding school in a remote part of the country. The boarding school has a turf war with what I presume is some sort of Australian ROTC equivalent. The book is about how the main character resolves this turf war and learns about her past along the way.

Anyway, it's a great read. The resolution of the plot reminded a lot of Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me. If you liked that, I wager you'd like this.