Week of November 11, 2007

Listened with rapt attention to Bloody Jack: being an account of the curious adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, ship’s boy by L.A. Meyer. This sea adventure is about a girl posing as a boy to escape a life of begging in nineteenth century London.

We currently have the first three books:

• Bloody Jack: being an account of the curious adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, ship’s boy
  

• Curse of the Blue Tattoo: being an account of the misadventures of Jacky Faber, midshipman and fine lady

• Under the Jolly Roger: being an account of the further nautical adventures of Jacky Faber

Pirates!: the true and remarkable adventures of Minerva Sharpe and Nancy Kington, female pirates by Celia Rees

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This is a sea adventure on the slave trade and piracy. It takes place about a hundred years before the Bloody Jack series. Instead of a poor street urchin improving her lot, Nancy is from a wealthy Bristol family, the setting is Jamaica.

Another book I’ve been enjoying is Memoirs of a teenage amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin – Falling down some steps, Naomi saves an expensive camera but hits her head, awakening to discover that she has no recollection of classmates, friends or enemies.