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Victory (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781416914778)
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x 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.
Author: Susan Cooper
ISBN-10: 1416914773
ISBN-13: 9781416914778
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2006
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.92w x 0.82d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 107239 / Victory
Award: Connecticut Book Awards - Nominee
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee
Award: Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award - Nominee
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/2006 pg. 84
School Library Journal 07/01/2006 pg. 100
Kirkus Review - Children 07/01/2006 pg. 675
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2006 pg. 437
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2006 pg. 493 - Recommended
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2006 pg. 76
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2007 pg. 13
Booklist 04/15/2007 pg. 51
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2007 pg. 66 - Superior,Well Above Average
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.
Author: Susan Cooper
ISBN-10: 1416914773
ISBN-13: 9781416914778
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2006
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.92w x 0.82d
Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 8
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 107239 / Victory
Award: Connecticut Book Awards - Nominee
Award: South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award - Nominee
Award: Iowa Children's Choice (ICCA) Award - Nominee
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/01/2006 pg. 84
School Library Journal 07/01/2006 pg. 100
Kirkus Review - Children 07/01/2006 pg. 675
Horn Book Magazine 07/01/2006 pg. 437
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 07/01/2006 pg. 493 - Recommended
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2006 pg. 76
Booklist Ed Choice Youth 01/01/2007 pg. 13
Booklist 04/15/2007 pg. 51
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2007 pg. 66 - Superior,Well Above Average
By Susan Cooper
xSusan 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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