In the belly of the bloodhound being an account of a particularly peculiar adventure in the life of Jacky Faber

Jacky Faber and her classmates at the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston are kidnapped while on a school outing and transported in the hold of a slave ship bound for the slave markets of North Africa.

Main Author: Meyer, L. A. 1942-
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Language: English
Published: [Roseland, N.J.] : Listen & Live Audio, Inc., 2008.
Series: A Bloody Jack adventure ; #04
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Summary: Jacky Faber and her classmates at the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston are kidnapped while on a school outing and transported in the hold of a slave ship bound for the slave markets of North Africa.
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Unabridged.
Duration: 15:21:38.
Playing Time: 15:21:38
Format: Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 220765 KB; MP3 file size: 432911 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Awards: Odyssey Honor, 2010.
ISBN: 9781593164027
1593164025
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.

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