After some time on the ship, Jacky finds that she has grown, and needing some new clothes, she makes her own out of canvas she buys from the ships stores with part of her paycheck. Liam teaches her the ways of the ship and how to play the pennywhistle.
Jacky meets a seaman, Liam Delaney, who becomes her sea dad. Jacky and the other ship's boys gain their sea legs and begin their duties on the ship. After boarding the ship, she meets the other ship's boys, named Tink, Willy, Benjy, Davy, and Jaimy.
Her endeavor is successful due to her ability to read, and she is signed under the alias Jack "Jacky" Faber. After the death of the gang's leader, Rooster Charlie, she dons boy's clothing and goes to the docks, where she attempts to obtain a position as one of six ship's boys on the British warship, the HMS Dolphin. Mary Faber is an orphan in a gang on the streets of Cheapside, London, during the late 18th century. Jacky comes back to the Dolphin covered in blood, and her proud shipmates nickname the little "boy" Bloody Jack. She is nicknamed 'Bloody Jack' after the crew of the HMS Dolphin board a ship and she, still only about thirteen years old, uses a plundered pistol to kill a pirate who is about to stab one of her fellow shipmates, Jaimy, who is paralyzed with fright.
She quickly finds a position as a ship's boy aboard the HMS Dolphin, due to her limited reading skills. When Charlie is murdered by a corpse seller named Muck, Mary takes Charlie's clothes and shiv, taking on the name of "Jack" to hide her identity as a girl. The gang's life is rough as they try to survive each day on the streets of 18th-century London. Their leader is a clever adolescent named Rooster Charlie whom Mary learns to love as a brother and as a leader.
The first novel of the Jacky Faber series.Īfter describing the death of Mary Faber's family and her entrance into the Rooster Charlie gang, the action starts out with the main character, Mary Faber, struggling to survive on the streets of London with the other orphaned children.
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