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Victory Hardback - 2006

by Susan Cooper

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A Newbery Medalist delivers an enthralling family saga in which two children cross an ocean 200 hundred years apart: Sam in 1805, and Molly in 2005. Separate yet together, Sam and Molly struggle through fear and excitement to a final ordeal that terrifyingly tests their courage.

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Alternating chapters follow the mysterious connection between a homesick English girl living in present-day America and an eleven-year-old boy serving in the British Royal Navy in 1803, aboard the H.M.S. Victory, commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson.

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Two Children,
Two Struggles,
One Battle...

One child is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard HMS Victory, the ship in which Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The other is Molly Jennings, an English girl transplanted from London to the United States in 2006, fighting a battle of her own against loss and loneliness.

This extraordinary time-shifting adventure tells the interwoven stories of Sam and Molly, linked by a mystery. Sam is a farm boy, kidnapped at eleven years old by the "press gang" to serve in the Royal Navy. At first terrified and seasick, Sam is transformed gradually into a sailor. In the rowdy, dangerous world of a hundred-gun warship enduring the Napoleonic Wars, he meets both cruelty and kindness, and survives a fearsome battle whose echoes reach through the years to involve Molly as well. Like Sam, Molly has lost her childhood but will find her future, with help from a very unexpected source.

Separate yet together, Sam Robbins and Molly Jennings struggle through fear and excitement to a final ordeal that terrifyingly tests their courage. And the moving climax of the book shows two lives joined forever by the touch of Nelson, one of the greatest sailors of all time.

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  • Title Victory
  • Author Susan Cooper
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Margaret K. McElderry Books, New York
  • Publication date 2006
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9781416914778 / 1416914773
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.92 x 0.82 in (23.72 x 17.58 x 2.08 cm)
  • Age range 09 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 4 - 7
  • Reading level 1010
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1800-1850
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - History, Naval - 19th century, Sea stories
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005016747
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/01/2006, Page 84
  • Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/2007, Page 13
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 07/01/2006, Page 493
  • Horn Book Magazine, 07/01/2006, Page 437
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2007, Page 66
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 07/01/2006, Page 675
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/31/2006, Page 76
  • School Library Journal, 07/01/2006, Page 100

About the author

Susan Cooper is one of our foremost fantasy authors; her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising has sold millions of copies worldwide. Her books' accolades include the Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and five shortlists for the Carnegie Medal. She combines fantasy with history in Victory (a Washington Post Top Ten Books for Children pick), King of Shadows, Ghost Hawk, and her magical The Boggart and the Monster, second in a trilogy, which won the Scottish Arts Council's Children's Book Award. Susan Cooper lives on a saltmarsh island in Massachusetts, and you can visit her online at TheLostLand.com.
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