Iron Thunder

Description:

*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: United States in fiction,  Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862 in fiction,  The Merrimac,  The Monitor,  Shipbuilding in fiction,  Fiction,  Monitor (Ironclad),  United States Civil War, 1861-1865,  Shipbuilding,  Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862,  Armored vessels,  Spy stories,  History,  Merrimack (Frigate),  Juvenile fiction,  Children's fiction,  War, fiction,  United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction,  Monitor (ironclad), fiction,  Merrimack (frigate), fiction,  Ships, fiction

Places: United States,  Virginia

Times: Civil War, 1861-1865