num_pages: 171
description: In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
language: English
title: The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant, Hibbing, Minnesota, 1905
titlecomplete: The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant, Hibbing, Minnesota, 1905
genres: Childrens, American History, American, Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Historical, Juvenile, Fiction, Middle Grade, Diary
ratings_count: 408
places: Finland, Hibbing, Minnesota
series: My Name Is America
publisher: Scholastic