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Author Pearson, P. O'Connell (Patricia O'Connell), author.

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

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2019]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1982822~S1
Location Call No. Status
 Nichols Juvenile Nonfiction  J 333.751 PEA    AVAILABLE
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Description 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Audience Age 10+
Note Age 10+
Audience Grade 4 to 6.
Note Grade 4 to 6.
Summary Presents the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps, a program that employed impoverished young men during the Great Depression to build and improve hundreds of state and national parks, plant trees, and restore agricultural land.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-180) and index.
Audience 1080L Lexile
Note 1080L Lexile
Subject Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 -- Juvenile literature.
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Forest conservation -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Conservation of natural resources -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 9781534429321 (hardcover)
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