Adventure

In the Belly of the Bloodhound
L.A Meyer

The redoubtable Jacky "Mary" Faber has returned to the Lawson Peabody School for young girls in order to become a fine lady. She is learning much in the way of art, science, and her favorite music. Then one day her science teacher tells her and the rest of his science class that they will be going on a class field trip to a nearby island to study the flora and the fauna. But when the faithful day comes Mistress Pimm, the science teacher, and even the faithful Mr. Higgins fall to a sudden sickness and the girls are left in the hands of a strange man and his slave. As they pull out into the water Jacky starts to notice some strange things, suddenly the girls find themselves held at gunpoint and forced onto a slave ship bound for Northern Africa. Now it is up to Jacky and the fine ladies of the Lawson Peabody to escape; but can Jacky make up with her long time enemy. the person who made Jacky look like a fool, the cunning and snobbish Clarissa Worthington Howe, at least for long enough to escape?

This book was filled with wild songs, some dancing, and even a ghost. This is one of my favorite book series and I have read it multiple times. My favorite part was when Jacky and Clarissa were coming back from stealing things out of the storage areas, but when they came back one of the slavers is running an inspection, so in order to avoid detection Jacky jumps on to Clarissa and the two stage a little bit of a romance. I would recommend this book to teens and adults who love pirate stories and roaring adventures on the high seas.