<B>A historic connection has the power to change the future in this classic, gripping novel from Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper.</B><P>Sam Robbins is a farm boy, kidnapped to serve on HMS <I>Victory</I>, the ship on which Lord Nelson will die a hero’s death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.<P> <P>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.<P> <P>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.