Title: Fires in the wilderness
Subtitle: a story of the Civilian Conservation Corps boys
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.
Subjects: Maturation (Psychology), Wildfires, Depressions, Polish Americans, Juvenile fiction, Bullies, Fiction, Fires, Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.), History, Children's fiction, Depressions, fiction, Bullies, fiction, Fires, fiction, Michigan, fiction, Polish americans, fiction
Places: Michigan, Upper Peninsula (Mich.)
Time periods: 1929, 20th century