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1) The darkest evening

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Durbin, William

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Orchard Books

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c2004

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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6

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In the 1930s, a young Finnish-American boy reluctantly moves with his family to Karelia, a communist-Finnish state founded in Russia, where his idealistic father soon realizes that his conception of a communist utopia is flawed.

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2) The journal of Otto Peltonen, a Finnish immigrant

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Durbin, William

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Scholastic

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2000.

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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.

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