Other editions of book The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant

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.

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.