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Bloody Jack Pasta blanda – 6 junio 2003

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Meet Bloody Jack Faber, Scourge of the High Seas and Pirate-murderer, in the most swashbuckling, rip-roaring adventure of the year! Desperate to escape a life of poverty on the streets of London, twelve-year-old Jacky Faber joins the HMS Dolphin as a ship's boy. Looking forward to daring adventures and riches galore, Jacky soon discovers that surviving life at sea requires more than quick feet and hard work. Being shot at from all directions, taking on a fully-grown toothless pirate, or being washed up on a desert island demands courage and A Lot of luck. But Jacky loves it. There is just one problem - Jacky is a girl. And she will have to use every ounce of cunning she has if she is to keep the crew from discovering her secret. For eighteenth century girls aren't supposed to murder pirates, have tattoos or swear - are they?

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Bloody Jack Adventures
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304 páginas
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Inglés
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Macmillan Children's Books
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6 junio 2003
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13 x 1.9 x 19.7 cm
ISBN-10

0330418106
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978-0330418102
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Editorial ‏ : ‎ Macmillan Children's Books (6 junio 2003)
Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
Pasta blanda ‏ : ‎ 304 páginas
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0330418106
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0330418102
Dimensiones ‏ : ‎ 13 x 1.9 x 19.7 cm

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Stripernut

A GREAT read!

Reseñado en los Estados Unidos el 28 de junio de 2023

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12 books and wish there were more. Everyone I have suggested it to has loved them! It is bubble gum for the brain, but such enjoyable bubble gum... I can only hope that someone would turn this into a series for Prime or one of the other "Producers"... I know that "Hollywood" is not always in a hurry to produce something with younger characters, but this would be worth the effort.

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DrPat

Valour and Adventure on the High Seas

Reseñado en los Estados Unidos el 25 de mayo de 2016

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The full title of this book is meatier than its shorthand version: "Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy." The title, plus the cover illustration on the HMH trade paperback edition, offers exactly the bait to draw a young boy into a reading adventure.

Alas if our young reader (as this older one did) should miss the clue in that title; Jacky is a girl. A plague orphan masquerading as a boy to be safe on the mean streets of London in the 1790s, Jacky has learned how to cope on her own. Joining a street gang, she has learned to fight to keep herself and her comrades safe and fed.

For youngsters like her, the life of a ship's boy presents a shining promise. Imagine being fed each day, having a place to sleep out of the weather. Imagine not having to fight rival gangs for your right to exist. As for the dangers, well, Jacky is philosophical: "It's just as dead you get from starvation, muggin', or bein' stepped on by a horse, as you get from drownin'. which is, of course, the seagoin' option. And I hears they'll feed us, even. ... [Besides,] a girl what's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned."

At first the pleasures of her new position far outweigh the duties. Jacky is astounded to be served meat at her meals, and isn't worried about weevils in the biscuits. She sleeps soundly in unaccustomed peace, and is allowed to replace her brother's cast-off trousers with a hand-made uniform, so long as she makes it herself.

The dangers Jacky finds on board are nothing she can expect from life in London's streets: sadistic sailors and pederasts, strict preachers and officers, and a growing attraction to one of the other ship's boys are the least of her worries. Hot-cannon battles with pirates and the careful choice of where to have a tattoo and how to handle a visit to a brothel loom larger for Jacky and her mates. They take a young boy's perspective on all these perplexities, even religion: "No, Jesus ain't the King of Heaven," counters Davy. "His dad's the King of Heaven and there'd surely be hell to pay if Jesus come to dinner all covered wi' tattoos, 'specially with 'I loves you, Mary Magdalen' all over His Sainted Belly."

I first read "Bloody Jack" after reading the trilogy "The Hunger Games" ] and the first book of another dystopian trilogy, "Divergent" ]. It struck me then that Jacky was just as valorous, struggling every bit as hard against a world that did not welcome her, and as much—or more—challenged by her unorthodox nature as either Katniss Everdeen or Dauntless Tris. Yet the worlds Jacky inhabits are real. Her history is fiction, but only in its details; the broader picture Meyer paints reveals a true image of life in 1790s London, work on board a merchant vessel, and the struggles of those who live in the British Colonies of the time.

At the end, Jacky's sex has little to do with her courage, or her adventures. Young male readers can squint one eye and look past it to see the rollicking adventure it is.

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One of my all time favorite books

Reseñado en los Estados Unidos el 2 de enero de 2013

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Bloody Jack is one of my favorite books and is endlessly re-readable. Jacky has one hair-raising adventure after another, often followed by narrow escapes as she travels (or flees with the law at her heels) from one place to another. This series gets even better from book to book as Jacky goes from street urchin, to sailor, to "Fine Lady in Training" to pirate, to pioneer, etc. Jacky will try her hand at anything, sometimes disastrously, often hilariously and she never fails to find both trouble and adventure.

If you haven't read Bloody Jack do so immediately. You'll laugh and cry and fall in love with the amazing and outrageous Jacky Faber, and best of all, there's lots more books in the series and you haven't even gotten to the best ones yet.

Even though Jackie is a teenager, she's quite mature in her outlook on life and adults certainly won't feel they're reading a book written for young readers. (I was astounded to find this book in one library's children's section, most definitely misplaced. The author accurately and comprehensively describes life circa 1800- fascinating, but totally inappropriate for children.)

What's best about these books is Jackie herself: her irrepressible exuberance and excess of curiosity invariably land her in hot water, but her quick wits and never-say-die attitude, even in the face of seemingly impossible odds, usually manage to carry her through.

The author does a marvellous job of bringing the early 19 century alive, and the stories are filled with a wealth of period detail of every sort: the dress, food, music, customs, etc., of many different countries and cultures. Jacky's adventures provide the author with the opportunity to explore numerous historic events and the lives of people both great and small.

Jacky is no Pollyanna stumbling from one disaster to the next and ever in need of rescue, nor is she a MarySue of limitless resources ready to triumph over every adversity without mussing her flawless coiffure. She makes mistakes, gets herself in trouble even when she should know better then lies or runs away; she whines and gets depressed when things don't go her way, is an unrepentant flirt, a thief and a show-off, and frequently confesses to suffering from numerous moral failures because she "wasn't raised up proper-like." But she's also a loyal friend, a natural leader, smart as a whip and a champion of the downtrodden. She is a true heroine who is genuinely outraged at injustice and won't hesitate to throw her small self at overwhelming odds in defense of her chosen friends and allies. You just can't help cheering for her.

The Audible Audio version of the series, read by the very talented Katherine Kellgren, really brings Jacky to life. Ms. Kellgren does a pitch-perfect job of capturing all the different characters, giving each a distinct, memorable voice and nailing the accents perfectly. A wealth of period music brings yet another very enjoyable dimension to the audiobooks.

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drdoug99

One of my new favorites series of books

Reseñado en los Estados Unidos el 25 de abril de 2010

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I stumbled upon Bloody Jack thanks to Amazon's $5 dollar bargain book sale. Reading the description it sounded like a good read for 5 bucks, and I'm glad I bought it.

Mary Faber starts out as a penniless orphan forced to beg on the streets of London, and naturally wants to find a better way to live. Being a child of the streets, she's used to basically surviving any way she can, so when she sees an opportunity to join the ship's crew of the HMS Dolphin, she takes it. Of course, there's only one problem. That is of course, Mary Faber is a girl, and girls can't join a ship's crew. So she cuts her hair, dons some boy's clothing, and manages to be selected as a lucky ship's boy, using the name "Jacky" Faber.

In the book, she has to come with ways to continually hide her true identity as a girl, which is not always easy while performing her duties on the ship, as you can imagine. Also as time goes on, she develops an attraction to one of the ship's boy's, that makes things very complicated.

Jacky's character is great. She's funny, quick-witted, and very clever. Many times throughout the book you will be laughing at her antics, and genuinely worried for her well being as she gets into trouble....but Jacky, being resourceful and generally like-able by all who come across her, manages to get out of some tough spots.

The characters she meets on the boat are all well written, the description of the naval ship and terminology is neat, there's actually quite a bit of a history lesson as you read too.

But after reading this book I was so impressed that I bought the whole series of books, and just finished the 6th book. Each one gets better, and each book has all the humor, suspense, adventure, great characters, that you could want.

I read everything from pure fantasy/sci-fi, mystery, thrillers, biographies, horror, etc. If you like adventure, action, humor, drama, this book and all the rest in the series has it in spades. I really can't recommend it enough.

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I'm surprised at how many books out there are labeled for "Young Adult", this series being one of them. I'm 28, and I was a little surprised at the content I was reading, being that I had read that this book is recommended for 6th to 8th grade. The Harry Potter books for example, are much more kid friendly in my opinion. There are very adult themes here that anyone under 14 years old I would say might be a bit uncomfortable or not understand exactly what the author is inferring. The books actually get a bit more lewd and racy as Jacky gets older throughout the series too, which I think is fine, but be cautioned for the younger readers out there.

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E. Frier

A Must Read Great Adventure

Reseñado en los Estados Unidos el 13 de julio de 2018

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For all of you who are missing a bit of adventure these days, take heart, Bloody Jack Faber is here to save your day. This is a wondrous tale of a young orphan living in the streets of 1800’s London. Her chances are near zero, but she manages to align herself with a group of resourceful street urchins. When she finds her group leader Charlie dead she suspects the corpse dealer Mung. With reluctance, Mary strips Charlie of his cloths and put them on. They are far better than the ones she had. Mary is afraid she might be next and makes arrangements for another group leader to take over her small remaining troop. She has no plans on staying and comes to the conclusion that she is better off disguising herself as a boy. Using the knife she took from Charlie she cuts her hair short and makes her way to the docks. Life is easier being a boy she finds. Mary spots a great ship the Dolphin and thinks about going to sea. The ship’s Master is looking for Ship Boys. Why not try? What skill could she have that would be of value? She yells out, “I can read.” Welcome aboard matey. When asked what her name is, Mary says Jacky Faber, and so begins the adventure of the new ship’s boy. I can’t say enough about how brilliantly this book is written. It is full of wit, charm, sadness, and longing. The characters are dynamic, complex and delicious. You will come to love or hate them and remember their courage, fears, and their unbaiting will to survive against great odds. I recommend this book to everyone, young and old. I am looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

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