Iron Thunder: The Battle between The Monitor and The Merrimac
by Avi and C.B. Mordan
When his father is killed fighting for the Union in the War Between the States, thirteen-year-old... read more
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- Grade
- 1-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 2007
Word Count 27,752
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 620L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.3
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 118700, 4.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Subject Headings
- Merrimack (Frigate)--Fiction
- Merrimack (Frigate)--Juvenile fiction
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Juvenile fiction
- Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862--Juvenile fiction
- Spy stories
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Civil War, 1861-1865
- History
- Monitor (Ironclad)--Fiction
- Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862--Fiction
- Shipbuilding
- United States
- Naval operations
- Monitor (Ironclad)
- Monitor (Ironclad)--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Military & Wars
- Spies
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction
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