The journal of Otto Peltonen

By William Durbin

Subjects: United states, history, fiction, Minnesota, fiction, Diaries, fiction, Finns, united states, fiction, Diaries, Fiction, Children's fiction, Strikes and lockouts, Emigration and immigration, Finnish Americans, Juvenile fiction, Iron mines and mining

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.