The Monitor
Subtitle: the iron warship that changed the world
By: by Gare Thompson ; illustrated by Larry Day.
Contributors: Day, Larry, ill.
Series: All aboard reading.
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Subjects: Monitor (Ironclad) -- Juvenile literature; Virginia (Ironclad) -- Juvenile literature; Monitor (Ironclad); Virginia (Ironclad); Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862 -- Juvenile literature; Shipwrecks -- North Carolina -- Hatteras, Cape -- Juvenile literature; Underwater archaeology -- North Carolina -- Hatteras, Cape -- Juvenile literature; Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862; Underwater archaeology; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations -- Juvenile literature; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Discusses the Monitor and the Virginia, ironclad warships that confronted each other at the Civil War battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia, detailing what became of the ships after the battle and how the sunken Monitor was later investigated by scientists.