title: In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber (Bloody Jack Adventures)
author:  L. A. Meyer 
description: Grade 8 UpIn this installment in the series, the teen is back in Boston as a student at the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls. While there, she tries to comport herself as a proper young lady in polite society. When the girls go on a field trip to a nearby island, they are kidnapped and put on a slave ship called the <i>Bloodhound</i>, which is bound for Africa. Jacky quickly falls back on her seagoing experience to organize the captives into divisions and devise a daring escape plan, which could mean the difference between life and death. Readers unfamiliar with the previous books will have a difficult time following the action. It is not made clear what Jacky's previous adventures were and how she came to be in Boston and at the school. The narrative is somewhat slow and does not pick up speed until far into the journey on the slave ship. Jacky is a strong protagonist whose exploits are astounding and hair-raising, but the secondary characters are not as well developed.<i>Kristen Oravec, Cuyahoga County Public Library, Strongsville, OH</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  ## The Dark Discovery of Jack Dandy
  
  
    
  
  
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  ### Kady Cross
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Before he makes his appearance in The Girl with the Iron Touch, Jack Dandy had
  an adventure of his very own. Learn how his actions set the plot in motion in
  The Dark Discovery of Jack Dandy, a short teaser story from author Kady
  Cross’s Steampunk Chronicles.
  
  
  Jack Dandy didn’t become prince of the London underworld at barely twenty-one
  by being softhearted, even if a certain girl in a steel corset has wormed her
  way into his affections of late. He knows how to manipulate, charm and rob
  people blind.
  
  
  And if his criminal activities embarrass his aristocratic father, so much the
  better. So when a friend of Jack’s father hires him for an underhanded job,
  Jack is happy to oblige—for an outrageous fee, of course. Delivering a
  mysterious crate seems like an easy task—until Jack realizes just what is
  inside...
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  