Ingold, Jeanette. Hitch.INGOLD, Jeanette. Hitch hitch to fasten by a knot, usually used to describe tying a horse to a post. . Harcourt. 274p. bibliog. c2005. 0-15-205619-X. $6.95. JS To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, May 2005: When Moss Trawnley, age 17, loses his job at an airfield in Texas in the depths of the Depression, he heads out to Montana to try to find his father and make sure he gets money to their family back in Louisiana. But Moss's father is an unemployed drunk, he discovers, and so Moss ends up signing up for a hitch with the Civilian Conservation Corps Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), established in 1933 by the U.S. Congress as a measure of the New Deal program. The CCC provided work and vocational training for unemployed single young men through conserving and developing the country's natural resources. in Montana so that he at least can have a roof over his head and send some money home to Ma. Set up by President Roosevelt, the CCC CCC A very speculative grade assigned to a debt obligation by a rating agency. Such a rating indicates default or considerable doubt that interest will be paid or principal repaid. Also called Caa. took on conservation projects across the US, planting trees and helping to restore depleted de·plete tr.v. de·plet·ed, de·plet·ing, de·pletes To decrease the fullness of; use up or empty out. [Latin d farmland--but first Moss and the other young men must build a camp, and learn to work together. Moss makes new friends (including an attractive girl), becomes a leader at the camp, and learns what hard work and teamwork (product, software, tool) Teamwork - A SASD tool from Sterling Software, formerly CADRE Technologies, which supports the Shlaer/Mellor Object-Oriented method and the Yourdon-DeMarco, Hatley-Pirbhai, Constantine and Buhr notations. can accomplish, despite some stumbling blocks stum·bling block n. An obstacle or impediment. stumbling block Noun any obstacle that prevents something from taking place or progressing Noun 1. along the way. Set in 1936, this tale features some of the characters from Ingold's Airfield, though it can stand alone. As with the author's other historical fiction (The Big Burn and Pictures, 1918), it is carefully researched and features sympathetic young protagonists. Ingold does a good job of making the time and place come to life and she shines a light on a little-known aspect of the Depression. Paula Rohrlick, KLIATT J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. |
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