Jeanette Ingold

FROM PUBLISHER: In 1933, fifteen-year-old Beatty hangs around a small Texas airport waiting for visits from her pilot-father from whom she longs to learn about her deceased mother.

FROM AMAZON: In the early days of aviation, Beatty and Moss hang out around the airport Beatty's uncle manages. Beatty is hoping to see her father when he flies in--and quickly out again--on a mail flight. And Moss is hoping his mechanical skills will help him to support himself. Neither anticipates their crucial roles in the airfield's survival--or in saving Beatty's father's life.… (meer)

Moss Trelawney’s dad has given up. The U.S. is deep in the Depression, and he’s become a drunk who left his family to fend for themselves. So Moss decides to be as different as he can be – he joins the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC, a group that will forever change the face of America. The CCC runs like the Army, but it builds dams, plants trees, changes the flows of creeks and rivers – all to fight the deadly Dust Bowl and prevent mass starvation. But it’s really hard work, and the Depression brings out the mean in people. Can Moss make it in the CCC? Or will he be kicked out and become a drunken, shiftless bum like his dad? Easy read, fast moving historical fiction, 267 pp.… (meer)