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Victory
By Cooper, Susan
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-41691-477-8
- Publisher
- McElderry
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2006
Gr 5-8 Modern-day Molly, 11, understands that her family had to move from Connecticut to London because of her stepfather -s job, but she -s still achingly homesick. Sam, also 11, lives in England in 1803, until he -s forced into several years - service on the H.M.S. "Victory" under Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson. The boy eventually grows to enjoy many things about life in -this small city of people in one floating wooden frame. - Molly finds a scrap of the "Victory" -s flag tucked into an old book about Nelson and begins to exp...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on July 1, 2006
Cooper, known for stories of fantasy and time travel, explores the blurred margins of fantasy and its realistic counterpart, the subconscious, in this work set alternately now and in 1803–06. She tells parallel stories of eleven-year-old Molly Jennings, relocated from London to Connecticut and deeply homesick; and young Sam Robbins, pressed into service in the British navy, where he becomes a powder monkey on Lord Nelson's ship HMS Victory. The stories ar...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
