Fighting for the forest : how FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps helped save America
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2019]
Physical Description
197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Audience
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.
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.
Subjects
- Forest conservation > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
- Conservation of natural resources > United States > History > Juvenile literature.
- Forest conservation.
- Conservation of natural resources.
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) > Juvenile literature.
- Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 > Juvenile literature.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.