![]() Cooper tells Molly's story in present-tense, third-person narration, then switches to past-tense, first-person for Sam's chapters, a stylistic choice that makes the stories distinct but the shift between them jarring. These images resurrect lost memories of her late father, whose plane plunged into the Atlantic years earlier. But when Molly finds a historical artifact hidden inside the book, she begins having strange visions about Sam, his ship and the brutal sea battles of the Napoleonic Wars. Initially, the connection between these two children, disparate in time, circumstance and locale, seems tenuous-tied only by a biography of Nelson that Molly buys from a bookstore. ![]() Sam also has a new home-he's been pressed into service by the Royal Navy and assigned to kitchen duties on Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson's battleship. because of her mother's remarriage, and Sam, also 11, a 19th-century ship's boy aboard the HMS Victory ![]() ) tells the stories of 11-year-old Molly, a contemporary homesick Londoner transplanted to the U.S. In alternating chapters, Newbery Medalist Cooper ( The Dark Is Rising ![]()
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