Iron Thunder
About this book
*After his father is killed on the war, thirteen year old Tom takes on a job at the ironworks to support his family, and finds himself a target of ruthless spies when he begins to work on the ironclad ship dubbed **'The Monitor.'***
Subjects
- armored vessels
- children's fiction
- fiction
- hampton roads, battle of, va., 1862
- hampton roads, battle of, va., 1862 in fiction
- history
- juvenile fiction
- merrimack (frigate)
- merrimack (frigate), fiction
- monitor (ironclad)
- monitor (ironclad), fiction
- shipbuilding
- shipbuilding in fiction
- ships, fiction
- spy stories
- the merrimac
- the monitor
- united states civil war, 1861-1865
- united states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction
- united states in fiction
- war, fiction