Timber! Logging in Michigan (e-Book only)

Written by Aileen Fisher
Illustrated by Pers Crowell

            Fifteen-year-old Clyde Winton picks off potato beetles and envisions himself as a lumberjack riding logs down the Menominee River during the spring drive. But lumber work—which indirectly caused his father’s death in a great lumber mill fire—is the last employment Clyde’s mother wants for him. She hopes he will be in the first graduating class of 1887 from the new high school in Menominee, Michigan, and that he will even go to college. Yet she sets aside her dreams for him when her brother writes, offering Clyde work at his lumber camp in Iron River. Clyde can’t help bragging to his friends about his exciting new job, but when he arrives up north a rude shock awaits him. His position is not as a lumberman but as a cook’s assistant.  In his disappointment, Clyde finds solace in the majestic beauty of the white pine forests, and the unexpected friendship of a young lumberman, Arnold. Even from his menial position, Clyde has the opportunity to confront his strengths and weaknesses, and a new self-knowledge and a vision for his future begin to emerge.

Part of the Heritage History Series.

Includes:

• Illustrations
  

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Book Details:

• Time period: 1884
• Location: Michigan
• Content suitability (age): 10-up
• Read-aloud interest: 9-up
• Readability Level (grade): RL2.9
• Page count: 191 in print book
• SKU: 218-E (e-Book only)