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<br><br>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 <i>iron</i>. <br><br>Tom becomes assistant to the ship’s inventor, a gruff, boastful man named Captain John Ericsson. He soon learns that the Un
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- Author
- Avi, 1937-
- Publisher
- Hyperion Books For Children
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781423104469
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Young Adult, Children'S
- Rating
- 3.77 / 5 (1,222 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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