Fighting for the Forest: How FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps Helped Save America
Author: Pearson, P. O'Connell
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.6
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
39304
Points per Word
0.000178
Page Count
197
Points per Page
0.035533
Description
This book presents the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps, a program that employed impoverished young men to build and improve hundreds of state and national parks, plant trees, and restore agricultural land during the Great Depression.