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The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant
William Durbin
Hardcover (Scholastic, Nov. 1, 2003)Otto, a 16-year-old Finnish boy, comes to join his father in Minnesota expecting the fabled American "land of opportunity," and instead finds the squalor of a filthy mining town run by U.S. Steel.
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The Journal of Otto Peltonen-A Finnish Immigrant
William Durbin
Paperback (Scholastic, Aug. 16, 2002)One of the many in the My Name Is America series. Factitious stories based on facts written from the view of a child. The hardships and joys of coming to and growing up in the early days of America.
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My Name Is America: The Journal Of Otto Peltonen, A Finnish Immigrant
William Durbin
Hardcover (Scholastic Inc., Sept. 1, 2000)While working in the iron ore mines of Minnesota alongside his father, young Otto Peltonen captures in a journal his family's struggles and personal hardships as new arrivals to the "land of the free." 75,000 first printing.
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The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant Story
William Durbin
Paperback (Univ Of Minnesota Press, Aug. 18, 2020)A portrait of the Finnish immigrant experience in Minnesota during the early twentieth century—now in paperback After journeying across the Atlantic with his mother and two sisters, young Otto Peltonen joins his father in the iron ore mines of northern Minnesota, experiencing the harsh labor conditions that were common at the time, as mining companies cared more about making a profit than for their workers’ safety. Writing in his journal about his family’s struggles and the hard life Finnish immigrants endured in the early twentieth century, Otto ultimately strengthens his resolve to find the freedom his family had first sought in America.