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 hero's death at the Battle of Trafalgar
in 1805.
Molly Jennings is a twenty-first-century English girl who's been
transplanted to the United States by her stepfather's 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 that's tucked into an old book. It draws Molly into Sam's
world, to a moment in time that changed history--a frightening shared
moment that holds the key both to secrets from the past and hope for the
future.