She has dreams of wearing dresses, falling in love, getting married, and having children. She makes it quite clear that her disguise is a matter of survival and nothing more. What makes Jacky so different from so many of the other women-disguised-as-men is that she isn't mannish at all. Course, I'd rather not get a tattoo at all. I agree with all my heart, thinking about how I'd have some real explainin' to do if I grow up to be a lady and get married and on my wedding night my husband discovers a naked dancing girl tattooed on my tail. She tells us what it's like the first time a landlubber finds herself on the open sea she philosophizes about dresses she deals with peeing standing up and she voices her opinion on tattoos: The plot moves right along as Jacky gets herself out of one scrape after another. I'm not an audio book fan, but I can see the books in this series being perfect for it because Jacky has such a strong, unique voice. Life at sea is adventure indeed, and Jacky has just the voice to tell us about it all. She disguises herself as a boy, changes her name to Jacky and signs on as a ship's boy on the HMS Dolphin. In order to survive, she takes up with a gang of street urchins, but it's a rough, dangerous life, and Mary hopes for something better. It's 1797 in London, and little Mary Faber's family has just died of the plague. Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, #1 in the Jacky Faber seriesįirst Line: My name is Jacky Faber and in London I was born, but, no, I wasn't born with that name.
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