Victory

A historic connection has the power to change the future in this classic, gripping novel from Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper.

Sam Robbins is a farm boy, kidnapped to serve on HMS Victory, the ship on which Lord Nelson will die a hero€s death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

Molly Jennings is a twenty-first-century English girl who€s been transplanted to the United States by her stepfather€s job and is fighting her own battle against loss and loneliness.

Two different lives, two centuries apart, are linked by a tiny scrap of fraying cloth that€s tucked into an old book. It draws Molly into Sam€s world, to a moment in time that changed history€"a frightening shared moment that holds the key both to secrets from the past and hope for the future.