Iron Thunder by Avi (Contains Affiliate Link)
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 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 very
important plans for this iron ship called the Monitor. It is supposed to fight the Confederate "sea monster"--another ironclad--the Merrimac. But Ericsson is practically the only person who believes the Monitor will float. 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 (From Amazon.com product listing.)
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