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  Title

  The journal of Otto Peltonen : a Finnish immigrant

  Author

  Durbin, William, 1951-  

  Publisher:

  Scholastic,

  Pub date:

  c2000.

  Pages:

  171 p. :

  ISBN:

  043909254X

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    Type/Location	Call Number	Copies	Format
    Youth: Fiction	J AMERICA, MN	1	Book

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  The journal of Otto Peltonen : a Finnish immigrant
  Durbin, William, 1951-
  
  
  

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  Personal Author:

  Durbin, William, 1951-

  Title:

  The journal of Otto Peltonen : a Finnish immigrant / by William Durbin.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Scholastic, c2000.

  Physical description:

  171 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.

  Series Title:

  (My name is America)

  General Note:

  "Otto Peltonen is a fictional character created by the author and his journal and its epilogue are works of fiction"--Copyright page.

  General Note:

  "A Dear America book."

  Summary:

  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.

  Children's subject:

  Emigration and immigration--Fiction.

  Children's subject:

  Finnish Americans--Fiction.

  Children's subject:

  Iron mines and mining--Fiction.

  Children's subject:

  Strikes and lockouts--Fiction.

  Children's subject:

  Diaries--Fiction.

  Geographic term:

  Minnesota--Fiction.

  key:

  ocm43481703

  ISBN:

  043909254X