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Both swashbuckling and moving, no child should miss this book!

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Two children cross an ocean, two hundred years apart. One is Sam Robbins, a powder monkey aboard H.M.S.Victory, the ship in which Lord Nelson will die a hero's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The other is Molly Jennings, a present-day English girl transplanted from London to America, 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 by the "press gang" to serve in the Royal Navy. At first terrified and seasick, he is transformed gradually into a sailor. In the rowdy, dangerous world of a 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 him, she has lost her childhood, but will find her future with help, from a much unexpected source. Separate yet together, Sam and Molly struggle through fear and excitement to a final ordeal, which 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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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   4 of 4 people found the following review helpful: A moving story, 7 Nov 2006 By  Michele Fry (Oxford, England) - See all my reviews I feel sorry for "a reader", who appears to have completely missed the connection between Sam and Molly (her stepfather, with help, established that Sam was Molly's great-great-great-several times grandfather !). The reason Molly doesn't sell the piece of Nelson's flag that Sam left with his daughter and which then passed on to her, has nothing to do with her implied wealth, and everything to do with remembrance and memorialisation of the dead. Molly's father was killed when his plane went down over the sea - there was no body to recover for a funeral, so her mother held a memorial service which Molly was too young to appreciate. Sam didn't return from his final trip at sea either, so there would not have been a funeral service for him as there was for Admiral Nelson. Molly's act of putting the piece of flag into the sea was an act of remembrance for both her father and her distant ancestor, Sam. The book makes this quite clear when someone explains to Molly how men who are killed at sea are sewn into their hammocks and the remains are slipped into the sea. As for Molly being a spoilt brat, perhaps "A reader" has never been severely homesick - in which case, they're very, very lucky - but Molly is young and has been uprooted from the home she loved and the only life she remembers, to go and live in a strange country. They may speak English over in the US, but it is still a foreign country, with different customs and habits from Britain. Susan Cooper has done an excellent job of portraying the dizzying confusion of being uprooted from one's home, something that both Sam and Molly feel, and being transported to an entirely different lifestyle. The connections between the two children are established slowly and surely, and work very effectively. Both characters are drawn sympathetically, and both their stories are told beautifully. This is a fantastic book that shows Cooper's mastery of historical detail and creates both Molly's and Sam's worlds delightfully. I highly recommend this book.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: Is 'Victory' Victorious?, 3 Jun 2007 By  Mrs. T. Thomas - See all my reviews    This review is from: Victory (Paperback) This story is an amazing one. There seem to be two stories woven together in this book. One of the stories is set in the 17th Century; it is about a boy called Sam who oneday is taken from his family, by his Uncle, to the city where his uncle is a rope weaver. Sam along with his uncle are kidnapped and are taken on to the HMS VICTORY where he is set to work to fight against Napolean. In the present day a girl called Molly has moved from England to Conneticut with her mother to join her new American stepfather. On a visit to her stepfather's childhood village they stop inside a bookshop and find a piece of Napolean's flag hden inside a book..... For me 'Victory' is victorious.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Stirring and sensitive, 1 April 2007 By  Star_Sea "Xing" (Salisbury, England) - See all my reviews    This review is from: Victory (Paperback) I don't want to say too much about this book because I don't want to give the plot away. Molly is an English girl uprooted to Connecticut; Sam is a young boy press-ganged into serving in the British Navy during the Napoleonic Wars. Both are lost and homesick but what is the connection between them? Cooper has great insight into loneliness and displacement. The only drawback to this book, for me, is the rather garish cover.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 6 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews HMS Victory Hers we have two stories separated by two hundred years, yet joined by a fragment of cloth. It is a book that will be very welcome in school libraries as well as in many a private... Read more Published 7 months ago by Algernon Flowers An excellent read, but be warned of spoilers in previous reviews. As a primary teacher (Yr 5), I've come to really enjoy Susan Cooper's work, and this one is no exception: a great story told in an engagingly straightforward manner that draws you... Read more Published 17 months ago by Blencathra Well researched but contrived & unsympathetic main character Susan Cooper is usually a good author but you get the feeling she decided to construct a book about Napoleonic times, rather than that this story demanded to be written. Read more Published on 31 Mar 2006 < Search Customer Reviews