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Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Living with seven brothers and her father, who thinks girls are useless, a thirteen-year-old Finnish American farm girl is determined to prove her worth when a enterprising gentleman tries to purchase their cash-strapped family settlement in Washington State in 1900.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
10) Deep river
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling--the family epic--to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention. In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and the politicized young Aino--are forced...
11) Helsinki white
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Two days after their daughter is born, Kari Vaara drops a bombshell on his American wife, Kate: He has a brain tumor . . . and he's been handpicked to run a rogue black-ops unit, using crime to fight crime. After recovering from surgery, he gets to work. The black-ops unit is small, and reports directly to Finland's national chief of police. They have secrecy, autonomy, and the cash to buy all the high-tech gear. Soon the unit is cleaning house, robbing...
12) Challenge accepted: a Finnish immigrant response to industrial America in Michigan's copper country
Author
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
