Childrens Story - for Children over 10 years

Winner in 3 categories in the 14th Annual Audie Awards !

Bloody Jack is back and this time, she’s facing a situation far worse than a ship full of murderous pirates.

Curse of the Blue Tattoo, L.A. Meyer’s sequel to the enormously popular Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship’s Boy is just as bawdy and entertaining as the original.

Left in Boston by the H.M.S. Dolphin crew when they discover her true sex, Jacky Faber finds herself navigating entirely new waters. It turns out that bloodthirsty buccaneers have nothing on the young ladies at the Lawson Peabody School! As Jacky observes, "…they’re like any bunch of thirty or so cats thrown in a sack and shaken up good. They’re mean in ways that boys never even thought of being."

It isn’t long before Jacky shows her true colors by being arrested for "exposing a Female Part" (her knee) while jigging in the streets and is "busted down" to serving girl instead of student.

Jacky soldiers on, getting herself into scrapes that her darling beau midshipman Jaimy Fletcher couldn’t even begin to imagine, including uncovering a shady minister’s evil secret and fixing a horse race with voodoo.

And where in the world is seafaring Jaimy? As her letters to him continue to go unanswered, Jacky grows more and more worried. Still, at book’s end she takes an assignment as "lady’s companion" to the captain’s wife aboard a whaler headed for London.

Astute readers will notice that the whaler’s crabby captain has a peg leg and won’t be surprised if in the next Bloody Jack Adventure, Jacky ends up hunting the great white whale!

Awards:

‘CURSE OF THE BLUE TATTOO’

WINS BIG AT 2009 AUDIE AWARDS

Roseland, NJ – Listen & Live Audio’s Curse of the Blue Tattoo captured three awards at the 14th Annual Audie Awards—the most prestigious honors in spoken word entertainment—during a star-studded, gala ceremony held at the NY Historical Society on Friday, May 29th.  Curse of the Blue Tattoo won in the following categories:

* Distinguished Achievement In Production

* Solo Narration – Female

* Teens

The three Audie Awards continues Curse of the Blue Tattoo’s remarkable string of critical success that includes:

* Odyssey Honor Award

* ALA's Notable Children's Recordings List

* YALSA's Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults List

* Booklist's Editors’ Choice

* Earphone Award - Audiofile Magazine

* Starred Review - Booklist

* Starred Review - School Library Journal