Victory Author: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 transplanted to the United States by her stepfather's job who's fighting her own battle against loss and lonliness. — Two lives that couldn't ... more »be more different, two hundred years apart, are linked by a tiny scrap of fraying cloth, 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 to secrets from the past and hope for the future.« less
I really enjoyed this book. It was ironic that it the story of the victory happened to land in this little girls hand. Just at the time in her life when she needed it most.