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Blackwater Ben
E-bok, 2008
74 kr
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Thirteen-year-old Ben works at Blackwater Logging Camp as cook’s helper to his Pa. Long days of flipping pancakes and peeling potatoes with his ornery Pa make Ben long to be out in the woods with the lumberjacks. Felling logs, sawing trees, driving a team through the snowy woods . . . that’s what …
Winter War: A Novel
E-bok, 2008
104 kr
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When the Soviet Union invades its tiny neighbor Finland in November 1939, Marko volunteers to help the war effort. Even though his leg was weakened by polio, he can ski well, and he becomes a messenger on the front line, skiing in white camouflage through the forests at night. The dark forest is …
Hidden Room
Av Barbara Durbin, William Durbin
E-bok, 2022
68 kr
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Could you survive in a cave...for a whole year? That''s the challenge facing fourteen-year-old Jacob. Set in Ukraine during the final months of World War II, THE HIDDEN ROOM is based on the true story of a Jewish family who escapes from the Nazis by taking refuge in a remote cave. Jacob adjusts to …
Broken Blade
E-bok, 2020
188 kr
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In 1800, thirteen-year-old Pierre LaPage dreams of becoming a voyageur and paddling a fur trade canoe. But this is something that older, more experienced men do. However, when Pierre''s father has an accident, Pierre signs on with the North West Company so that his family will have money to survive …
Journal of Otto Peltonen
A Finnish Immigrant Story
Häftad, 2020
132 kr
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A portrait of the Finnish immigrant experience in Minnesota during the early twentieth century-now in paperbackAfter 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 …
Red Ore Rising
The Journal of Otto Peltonen, a Finnish Immigrant Story
Häftad, 2026
188 kr
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A portrait of the Finnish immigrant experience in Minnesota during the early twentieth centuryAfter 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 …
Lector
E-bok, 2014
272 kr
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Thirteen-year-old Bella wants to be a lector just like her grandfather, who sits on a special platform in the cigar factory, reading great novels, the newspaper, and union news to workers as they roll the cigars. Being a lector is an important role in their immigrant community. But the hard times …
Darkest Evening
Häftad, 2011
132 kr
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In the 1930s, some 6,000 Finnish Americans traveled to Karelia, a province in Northwestern Russia, hoping to leave the Depression behind and to establish a workers’ paradise. Based on these true events, The Darkest Evening chronicles the story of Jake Maki, whose father, caught up in the socialist …
Song of Sampo Lake
Häftad, 2011
132 kr
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For fifteen-year-old Matti Ojala and his family, Finnish immigrants in Minnesota in 1900, starting a new life in America is both a hardship and an opportunity. After a tragic mining accident kills their beloved uncle, the family turns away from on the iron mines to pursue the dream of owning a …
Blackwater Ben
Häftad, 2014
132 kr
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According to thirteen-year-old Ben Ward’s father, lumberjacks look forward to two things: mealtime and springtime. In the winter of 1898, Ben leaves school for a job as a cook’s assistant to his father at the Blackwater Logging Camp. As Ben spends long hours peeling potatoes and frying flapjacks, …
Dead Man's Rapids
Av William Durbin, Barbara Durbin
Häftad, 2018
132 kr
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When 13-year-old Ben Ward left school to work with his Pa in a logging camp, a winter of peeling potatoes and setting tables wasn’t the adventure he had in mind. Still, come spring, he signs up for the log drive with his friend Nevers, wishing the head cook on the wanigan (the floating cook shack) …
