This book was recommended to me by several co-workers. I started it with great hopes, and was immediately annoyed to find it written in dialect. (If the characters already talk that way, why make the narrator talk that way?! It's overkill. Same problem with Kiss & Blog.) However, the story of Mary "Jacky" Faber, orphaned at 13 and accepted as a (disguised) ship's boy by the British Royal Navy, pulled me in. As the chapters unfolded, Jacky's voice moved from street urchin to salty sailor, and I stopped finding it so jarring. I was only interested to see whether she'd keep up "The Deception" of being a boy on a ship of 800 men, whether anything would ever happen between her and the boy Jaimy (since he thinks she's a boy), and whether she'd avoid one sailor's slimy advances. 
 Swashbuckling adventure, hard to put down. Interesting view of gender roles; some scenes may disturb younger readers. It's great to read a fiesty adventure with a girl hero. Reminded me a little of On Fortune's Wheel by Cynthia Voigt, because of the way fate takes the character and sees her through some widely varying adventures.