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Durbin, William, 1951-

The journal of Otto Peltonen/ a Finnish immigrant William Durbin. - 1st ed. - New York : Scholastic Inc, 2000. - 171 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. - 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.

ISBN: 043909254X

LCCN: 00021919

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
Finnish Americans--Fiction.
Iron mines and mining--Fiction.
Strikes and lockouts--Fiction.
Diaries--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Minnesota--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.D9323 / Jm 2000

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]