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10 best books like Nothing to Lose (Norah McClintock): The Fixer, Bloody Jack, Cut, Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady, The End of the Fucking World, Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber, In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber, Love, Stargirl, My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War, Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West

The Fixer
AuthorJennifer Lynn Barnes
ISBN1619635941
This thriller YA is Scandal meets Veronica Mars.

Sixteen-year-old Tess Kendrick has spent her entire life on her grandfather's ranch. But when her estranged sister Ivy uproots her to D.C., Tess is thrown into a world that revolves around politics and power. She also starts at Hardwicke Academy,...
Bloody Jack
AuthorL.A. Meyer
Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy

Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming...
Cut
AuthorPatricia McCormick
ISBN0439324599
Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.

Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She...
Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady
AuthorL.A. Meyer
ISBN0152054596
After being forced to leave HMS Dolphin and Jaimy, her true love, Jacky Faber is making a new start at the elite Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston. But growing up on the streets of London and fighting pirates never prepared Jacky for her toughest battle yet: learning how to be a fine lady.

Everything...
The End of the Fucking World
AuthorCharles Forsman
ISBN1606996673
'At 16, I pretended to fall in love with Alyssa.'

Meet James and Alyssa, two teenagers facing the fears of coming adulthood. As their story is told through chapters which alternate each character's perspective, however, this somewhat familiar teenage experience takes a more nihilistic...
Under the Jolly Roger: Being an Account of the Further Nautical Adventures of Jacky Faber
AuthorL.A. Meyer
ISBN0152058737
It makes me sad that they don't write many pirate novels for adults. This series is listed as YA, and the themes within are suitable for that category, but the main character is just so obnoxiously childish that I think I've outgrown her.

The author does his research well in terms of nautical technicalities...
In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber
AuthorL.A. Meyer
ISBN0152055576
The British crown has placed a price on Jacky's head, and so she returns to the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston to lay low. But laying low isn't in the cards for a spunky lass who finds trouble even when she's not looking for it.

A school outing goes awry as Jacky and her classmates...
Love, Stargirl
AuthorJerry Spinelli
ISBN0375913750
LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date through a little more than a year's time. In her writing,...
My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War
AuthorL.A. Meyer
ISBN0152061878
The infamous pirate, riverboat seductress, master of disguise, and street-urchin-turned-sailor Jacky Faber has been captured by the French and beheaded in full view of her friends and crew.Inconceivable? Yes! The truth is she’s secretly forced to pose as an American dancer behind enemy...
Mississippi Jack: Being an Account of the Further Waterborne Adventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman, Fine Lady, and Lily of the West
AuthorL.A. Meyer
ISBN0152060030
The intrepid Jacky Faber, having once again eluded British authorities, heads west, hoping that no one will recognize her in the wilds of America. There she tricks the tall-tale hero Mike Fink out of his flatboat, equips it as a floating casino-showboat, and heads south to New Orleans, battling murderous...
The Gravesavers
AuthorSheree Fitch
ISBN0385660731
“An odd shaped shell caught my eye. . . . I turned it over. . . . It was a tiny, perfect skull.”

In the wake of a family tragedy, twelve-year-old Minn Hotchkiss is sent to spend the summer with her sour grandmother in the tiny seaside town of Boulder Basin, Nova Scotia. Almost as soon as she arrives,...
Rapture of the Deep: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Soldier, Sailor, Mermaid, Spy
AuthorL.A. Meyer
ISBN0152065016
On the very day that Jacky Faber is to wed her true love, she is kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission—this time to search for sunken Spanish gold. But when Jacky is involved, things don't always go as planned.

Jacky has survived battles...
Fifth Rule
AuthorDon Aker
ISBN1554688639
Reef has been living in Calgary for the past year, but nowhe’s back in Halifax for the funeral of Frank Colville, hisformer mentor. Memories of Frank compete with memories ofLeeza and the terrible way their relationship ended. Mindful thatthe restraining order against him has been renewed by Leeza’smother,...
The First Stone
AuthorDon Aker
ISBN0006392865
3.5 stars rated up

When I saw this book in my recommendations, the synopsis immediately grabbed me. I quickly looked it up on the kobo website to see if the price of the ebook and when I found out that it was less than $5 I purchased it right away.

Goodreads synopsis: Reef is a troubled sixteen-year-old,...
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