TY - BOOK AU - Durbin,William TI - The journal of Otto Peltonen, a Finnish immigrant SN - 043909254X AV - PZ7.D9323 Jm 2000 U1 - Fic 21 PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - Scholastic KW - Diaries KW - Fiction KW - sears KW - Immigration and emigration KW - Finnish Americans KW - Iron industry KW - Strikes KW - Historical Fiction KW - Mining KW - Minnesota N1 - AR; RC; 3-7; 9-12; 5; 1010; Lexile; Accelerated Reader AR; MG; 6.0; 4.0; 44832; Reading Counts!; 1010; 6.1; 9; Q21626 N2 - 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 ER -