From inside cover:
"A Letter to my readers:
I love to read good, strong stories with lots of adventure, action, and emotion-and plenty of detail. No surprise it's the kind of story I like to write, too.
That's what this series, I Witness, is all about: exciting stories about fictional young people during real events in history. I Witness stories will make you feel as if you are right in the middle of the action. The illustrations will show you what things really looked like.
One of the most exciting stories I've come upon is the tale of the Monitor and the Merrimac-the Civil War moment that brought two ironclad ships to battle for the first time. "Iron Thunder" is as true to what really happened as I could make it. In fact, on the Monitor there really was a boy by the name of Tom Carroll.
This is Tom's story-as I imagined it. Now it is your story.
Hang on...
Avi
"A Letter to my readers:
I love to read good, strong stories with lots of adventure, action, and emotion-and plenty of detail. No surprise it's the kind of story I like to write, too.
That's what this series, I Witness, is all about: exciting stories about fictional young people during real events in history. I Witness stories will make you feel as if you are right in the middle of the action. The illustrations will show you what things really looked like.
One of the most exciting stories I've come upon is the tale of the Monitor and the Merrimac-the Civil War moment that brought two ironclad ships to battle for the first time. "Iron Thunder" is as true to what really happened as I could make it. In fact, on the Monitor there really was a boy by the name of Tom Carroll.
This is Tom's story-as I imagined it. Now it is your story.
Hang on...
Avi
