My Name Is America: The Journal Of Otto Peltonen, A Finnish Immigrant

by William Durbin

Hardcover, 2000

Status

Available

Barcode

459

Publication

Scholastic Inc. (2000), Edition: First Edition, 208 pages

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.

Awards

Minnesota Book Awards (Finalist — Young Adult — 2001)
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