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The fourth star is sheerly for audiobook merits - definitely a good production. The story is great fun, while still feeling like solid historical fiction. Jacky starts out as an orphaned street kid in London, and we see the way the kids fight to survive, and the way others make a living by selling the bodies of dead street kids to surgeons to practice on - definitely a grim start. Life on the ship, by comparison, seems like heaven to Jacky - a place to sleep and three meals a day. Of course "the
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Great audio book and fun story of a young girl, Jacky, an orphan in Dickensian England who left the streets of London to work on a British ship disguised as a boy. Adventures galore and great characters! Definitely a good one for a YA boy or girl. Loved it so much, I'm on to the sequel in which she's been discovered to be a girl and put off in Boston to go to a girls' boarding school to learn to become a lady. Hilarious!
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I'm not a super fan of pirate fiction, but this was a fun romp (and, given the description of puberty through the eyes of a girl, surprisingly written by a man). I give the story three stars but the audio recording five, hence my four. Plus I am curious about Jacky's next adventures, so I'll continue with the series.
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Eight year old Mary Faber is orphaned during a London plague. After four years of running with an orphan gang, she signs on as a ships boy on the navy ship Dolphin.
Quite a fast paced and riveting story.
There is some rather gritty stuff in here. I was struck by the casual death that surrounded her after her parents died, while she was an orphan. There is some pretty frank discussion of her problems of going through puberty while hiding her gender on this all male ship. There is also an attempted ...more
Quite a fast paced and riveting story.
There is some rather gritty stuff in here. I was struck by the casual death that surrounded her after her parents died, while she was an orphan. There is some pretty frank discussion of her problems of going through puberty while hiding her gender on this all male ship. There is also an attempted ...more
Nov 09, 2008
Philip
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it was amazing
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Great fun. (Although I read a chapter outloud to J.F. and he was a little put off by the references to "dangly parts," but well, that's life at sea, mate.)
I'm reserving the next one from the library as we speak. Unless you're reading this after 2:00 pm Jan. 3 2009. In which case I've already done it. ...more
I'm reserving the next one from the library as we speak. Unless you're reading this after 2:00 pm Jan. 3 2009. In which case I've already done it. ...more
Ripping fun. Sailors and girls disguised as boys and suchlike. Hella yarn.
Mar 13, 2014
Sara ♥
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it was amazing
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March 27-28, 2014
Loved it!! Sooooooooo good!! And could Katherine Kellgren BE any more awesome? Seriously.
Loved it!! Sooooooooo good!! And could Katherine Kellgren BE any more awesome? Seriously.
LOVED it on tape.
Apr 29, 2010
Liz
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Susan
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