A historic connection has the power to change the future in this classic, gripping novel from Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper.
Sam Robbins is a farm boy, kidnapped to serve on HMS Victory, the ship on which Lord Nelson will die a heroâs death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Molly Jennings is a twenty-first-century English girl whoâs been transplanted to the United States by her stepfatherâs job and is fighting her own battle against loss and loneliness.
Two different lives, two centuries apart, are linked by a tiny scrap of fraying cloth thatâs tucked into an old book. It draws Molly into Samâs world, to a moment in time that changed historyâa frightening shared moment that holds the key both to secrets from the past and hope for the future.