- Searfaring life, Pirates, Juvenile fiction, Seafaring life
This is the story of Jacky Faber, an orphan from the slums of London. Jacky's only desire after life's tragedies is to become a ship boy. Only one problem... Jacky is a girl. So she disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates. But this is just the begining of an extremely addicting series and the highly adventerous life of a one Jacky Faber.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, earnest and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Louis A. Meyer
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 290
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Listen & Live Audio, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9780606304108
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