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Meyer, L. A. Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
MEYER, L. A. Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West. 611p. (A Bloody Jack Adventure). CIP. Harcourt. 2007. Tr $17. ISBN 978-0-15-206003-9. LC 2006034709.
Gr 8 Up--As Jacky and her schoolmates are returning to Boston in 1806 after escaping imprisonment aboard a slave ship, she is arrested by the British for piracy. She gets away with the help of some friends and flees to the American frontier, where she commandeers a riverboat and pilots it down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Along the way, she and her cohorts stop at towns to put on theatrical performances and church revivals …
