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Iron Thunder: The Battle Between the Monitor & the Merrimac (I Witness)
Iron Thunder The Battle Between the Monitor the Merrimac - I Witness
Author: Avi
When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll must take a job to help support his family. He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where dozens of men are frantically pounding together the strangest ship Tom has ever seen. A ship made of...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9781423104469
ISBN-10: 1423104463
Publication Date: 9/18/2007
Pages: 224
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Publisher: Hyperion
Book Type: Hardcover
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From inside cover:

"A Letter to my readers:
I love to read good, strong stories with lots of adventure, action, and emotion-and plenty of detail. No surprise it's the kind of story I like to write, too.

That's what this series, I Witness, is all about: exciting stories about fictional young people during real events in history. I Witness stories will make you feel as if you are right in the middle of the action. The illustrations will show you what things really looked like.

One of the most exciting stories I've come upon is the tale of the Monitor and the Merrimac-the Civil War moment that brought two ironclad ships to battle for the first time. "Iron Thunder" is as true to what really happened as I could make it. In fact, on the Monitor there really was a boy by the name of Tom Carroll.

This is Tom's story-as I imagined it. Now it is your story.
Hang on...
Avi


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