The journal of Otto Peltonen, a Finnish immigrant
By: by William Durbin
Edition: Reinforced Library ed
Series: My name is America; A Dear America book
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Emigration and immigration -- Juvenile fiction; Finnish Americans -- Juvenile fiction; Iron mines and mining -- Juvenile fiction; Strikes and lockouts -- Juvenile fiction; Diaries -- Juvenile fiction; Minnesota -- Juvenile fiction
Genres: Juvenile fiction
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 becomes involved in a union fight for better working conditions
Notes: "Hibbing, Minnesota, 1905"--Cover

IMC copy given in memory of Edward & Gladys Swenson and Robert L. Mount