Chicken Charlie's Year

by Susan Marie Manzke

Ten-year-old Charlie Petkus isn't surprised to get scratchy wool underwear from Aunt Mutzi for Christmas 1932, but he is surprised that her gift package includes a diary. To his dismay, his Lithuanian-immigrant mother thinks a diary is the perfect present. "You man of family, Casimir," she says. "You learn to write the English like good American." Charlie wants more than anything to make Mama proud. But he's not sure education is the way to manhood,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503307131
• ISBN13: 9781503307131
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"