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Bloody Jack being an account of the curious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy

Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Meyer, L. A. (Louis A.), 1942-
Other Authors:	Kellgren, Katherine
Format:	Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:	English
Published:	Roseland, NJ : Listen & Live Audio, c2007.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	A Bloody Jack adventure ; #01
Subjects:	Orphans > Young adult fiction. Seafaring life > Young adult fiction. Pirates > Young adult fiction. Sex role > Young adult fiction. Bloody Jack (Fictitious character) > Young adult fiction. Sea stories > Young adult.
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Summary:	Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
Physical Description:	6 sound discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience:	12 and up.
ISBN:	9781593160944 1593160941
Author Notes:	L. A. Meyer was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1942. He received a B.A. in English literature from the University of Florida in Gainesville and soon after, enlisted in the U.S. Navy for a four year-stint. He worked as a social worker and then published two picture books, The Gypsy Bears and The Clean Air and Peaceful Contentment Dirigible Airline, before receiving his M.F.A. in painting from Boston University in 1973. He taught high school art in Massachusetts for seven years and then left to open art and design shops. His first novel for young readers, Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy, was published in 2002. It became the first book in the Bloody Jack Adventure series. He died from Hodgkin's lymphoma on July 29, 2014 at the age of 71. (Bowker Author Biography)