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Iron Thunder (I Witness)

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When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old Tom Carroll should take a job to lend a hand improve his circle of relatives. He manages to find work at a bustling ironworks in his homeland of Brooklyn, New York, where dozens of men are frantically pounding together the strangest ship Tom has ever seen. A ship made of iron.

Tom becomes assistant to the ship’s inventor, a gruff, boastful man named Captain John Ericsson. He soon learns that the Union army has crucial plans for this iron ship referred to as the Monitor. It’s supposed to fight the Confederate “sea monster”–every other ironclad–the Merrimac. But Ericsson is practically the only person who believes the Monitor will flow. Everyone else calls it “Ericsson’s Folly” or “the iron coffin.”

Meanwhile, Tom’s position as Ericsson’s assistant has made him a target of Confederate spies, who offer him money for information about the ship. Tom finds himself caught between two certain dangers: an encounter with murderous spies and a battle at sea in an iron coffin

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