The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant
by William Durbin
In 1905 fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland... read more
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Realistic Fiction
- Cultural Experience
- Immigrant / Refugee
Year Published 2000
Word Count 27,597
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1010L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 44832, 4.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- Subject Headings
- Strikes and lockouts
- Diaries
- Emigration and immigration
- Minnesota--Fiction
- Iron mines and mining--Fiction
- Finnish Americans--Fiction
- Minnesota
- Strikes and lockouts--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emigration & Immigration
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States - 20th Century
- Iron mines and mining
- Finnish Americans
- Diaries--Fiction
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