Hitch
By Jeanette Ingold.
Description
Christopher Award - "Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness"Society of School Librarians International Best BookHistorical fiction at its best! From the author of The Big Burn comes this captivating story of a boy striving to become a man amidst the hard times of the 1930s Great Depression. Teenager Moss Trawnley is on his own and desperate when he joins Franklin Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC means a job at a Montana camp and money for his family. Self-esteem and self-reliance. Friends and being a leader. A crash course in living with na...
ISBN(s)
015205619X, 9780152056193
