Durbin, William

The Journal of Otto Peltonen, a Finnish Immigrant / by William Durbin. - 1st ed. - New York : Scholastic Inc, 2000. - 171 p. - My Name is America .

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.

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Emmigrantion and immigration--Fiction.
Finnish-Americans--Fiction.
Iron mines and mining--Fiction.
Stikes and lockouts--Fiction.
Minnesota--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.