Fires in the wilderness
Subtitle: a story of the Civilian Conservation Corps boys
By: Jeffery L. Schatzer.
Publisher: Mitten Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587265501
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) -- Juvenile fiction; Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) -- Fiction; Depressions -- 1929 -- Michigan -- Juvenile fiction; Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction; Bullies -- Fiction; Wildfires -- Fiction; Fires -- Fiction; Maturation (Psychology) -- Fiction; Polish Americans -- Fiction; Upper Peninsula (Mich.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: Jarek Sokolowski and some of his Polish American friends sign up for the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Depression and go to work in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, clearing land, fighting fires, and growing from boys into men.