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Fighting for the forest : how FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps helped save America / P. O'Connell Pearson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2019]Edition: First editionDescription: 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781534429321
  • 1534429328
  • 9781534429338
  • 1534429336
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Waiting for hope -- Taking action -- Looking back -- A miracle of cooperation -- Into the woods -- What will they do, Mr. President? -- Winning support -- More than work -- Across the country -- Moving on -- Lasting legacies.
Summary: Tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corp through a close look at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia (the CCC's first project) and through the personal stories and work of young men around the nation who came of age and changed their country for the better working in Roosevelt's Tree Army. -- amazon.com
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 333.7516 P362 Available 33111009395274
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 333.7516 P362 Available 33111009535788
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In an inspiring middle grade nonfiction work, P. O'Connell Pearson tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps--one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal projects that helped save a generation of Americans.

When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the United States was on the brink of economic collapse and environmental disaster. Thirty-four days later, the first of over three million impoverished young men were building parks and reclaiming the nation's forests and farmlands. The Civilian Conservation Corps--FDR's favorite program and "miracle of inter-agency cooperation"--resulted in the building and/or improvement of hundreds of state and national parks, the restoration of nearly 120 million acre of land, and the planting of some three billion trees--more than half of all the trees ever planted in the United States.

Fighting for the Forest tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corp through a close look at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia (the CCC's first project) and through the personal stories and work of young men around the nation who came of age and changed their country for the better working in Roosevelt's Tree Army.

"Boys of the Civilian Conservation Corp, 1933-1942"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.

Waiting for hope -- Taking action -- Looking back -- A miracle of cooperation -- Into the woods -- What will they do, Mr. President? -- Winning support -- More than work -- Across the country -- Moving on -- Lasting legacies.

Tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corp through a close look at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia (the CCC's first project) and through the personal stories and work of young men around the nation who came of age and changed their country for the better working in Roosevelt's Tree Army. -- amazon.com

Age 10+

Grade 4 to 6.

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