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| Bloody Jack (Bloody Jack Adventures) | 
 enlarge | Author: L.a. Meyer
Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 427252
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 6
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 1593160941
EAN: 9781593160944
ASIN: 1593160941
Publication Date: April 15, 2007
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Condition: Brand-new. Shrink-wrap intact. You are buying directly from the publisher, Listen & Live Audio, Inc.
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Product Description
Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirates on the high seas. There's only one problem: Jacky is a girl. And she will have to use every bit of her spirit, wit, and courage to keep the crew from discovering her secret. This could be the adventure of her life--if only she doesn't get caught...
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 Great fun! Read them all! August 26, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
There are now 3 of the Jacky Faber books. I've read them all, and I've enjoyed every one of them (the 1st and 3rd more than the 2nd).
What I like most about the books, besides the action, is the sheer joy and spunkiness of the main character, Jacky Faber. She gets into scrape after scrape, but always comes out on top. She's impulsive and careless, but wily and resourceful. And though she's definitely a fantasy creation, the naval adventure genre is full of fantasy creations (Horatio Hornblower being the most obvious example). So why not have a female one, for once?
Read these books. You won't regret it!
 Absolutely wonderful January 24, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This Audio CD is utterly fantastic!! I cannot rave about it enough. It is so good, that I am sitting here typing a recommendation, something I have never done for all the thousands of books I have purchased here.
I had already read the novel, and two sequels. I love the books, and I love the character of Jacky Faber. Then, I got this audio book for Christmas as I had just gotten a job which required a 45 minute commute each way, so I thought this would help kill the time. Well, I love this story even more now, having heard Katherine Kellgren's wonderful reading. I swear, you'll think it is Jacky herself telling her story. This actress, and that's what she deserves to be called, really made this story come alive. If there are Oscar's for audio book narrator's, I hope she wins one! Do I sound like I'm gushing? Well, I am! Not only is this a wonderfully fun story for any age, but hearing it read by this incredibly talented woman truly takes it to the next level.
 Don't Read This Book November 26, 2003
2 out of 16 found this review helpful
The book Bloody Jack is about a homeless girl. First of all her family dies in what she calls the dark day. A gang comes and steels all of her clothes, and then she goes with them. The leader of the gang dies about five years later. She can't handle it so she goes to the docks. She has always wanted to be a sailor. She tells the captain that she can read and she is enrolled as a ships boy. The only problem is that no one can find out that she is a girl otherwise she will be hanged. The other boys start to wonder why she doesn't stick around when they take a swim. Finally she tells one boy that she is a girl. He is astonished. Then they fall in love. I didn't like this book very much because there was not very much action. I guess it was sort of a girl's book. I picked it out because the title sounded pretty good. Then I read the summary and it talked about pirates and blood. But they only come upon a couple of pirate ships. Everything else is she is just worried about if she will get caught. I will not tell you what happens next. You have to read. I guess that is why they say never judge a book by its cover.
fan !!!! August 29, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
it was soooooo good....any one who doesn't like it just can't apreciate the finer books in life....i can't wait to read the next 1!!!!!!!!
ADVENTURE March 15, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderfull book and the first of the Jacky Faber adventures it has a fabulous story line and it makes you laugh and just it brings joy when ever you read it. It has a very interesting main character with spunk and a wonderful persionality. This is a must rad.
It is about a gilr that becomes homeless after her familey dies.She is picked up buy a gang and becomes friend but when the leader is murdered she cant take it any more and she cuts her head and becomes a ship's boy. She had to pretend to be a boy and has a very hard time doing so. It is a funny book and you become all of the characters friends it has such description and detail and emotion it is as if the charactor is actualy writing the book.
There are two other book that I know of that follow this book The curse of the blue tatoo and Under the jolly rodger. also wonderful books.
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