Victory - Brossura

Cooper, Susan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1416914781 ISBN 13: 9781416914785

Casa editrice: Margaret K McElderry, 2007

Riassunto

Alternating chapters follow the mysterious connection between a homesick English girl living in present-day America and an eleven-year-old boy serving in the British Royal Navy in 1803, aboard the H.M.S. Victory, commanded by Admiral Horatio Nelson. Reprint.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

"A vivid historical tale within the framework of a compelling modern story." - Booklist, starred review

"[A] compelling, tautly rigged tale." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review

L'autore:

Susan Cooper is one of our foremost children’s authors; her classic five-book fantasy sequence The Dark Is Rising has sold millions of copies worldwide. Her many books have won the Newbery Medal, a Newbery Honor, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and been shortlisted five times for the Carnegie Medal. She combines fantasy with history in Victory (a Washington Post Top Ten for Children novel), King of Shadows and Ghost Hawk, and her magical The Boggart and the Monster, second in a trilogy, won the Scottish Arts Council’s Children’s Book Award. Susan Cooper lives on a saltmarsh island in Massachusetts, and you can visit her online at TheLostLand.com.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Margaret K McElderry
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1416914781
• ISBN 13: 9781416914785
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 206