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.'***
- United States in fiction
- The Merrimac
- The Monitor
- Shipbuilding in fiction
- Fiction
- Monitor (Ironclad)
- United States Civil War, 1861-1865
- Shipbuilding
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