Title: The journal of Otto Peltonen
Subtitle: a Finnish immigrant
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Strikes and lockouts, Diaries, Finnish Americans, Juvenile fiction, Emigration and immigration, Iron mines and mining, Fiction, Children's fiction, Diaries, fiction, Minnesota, fiction, Finns, united states, fiction, United states, history, fiction
Places: Minnesota
LC classification: PZ7.D9323 Jm 2000