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Books by William Durbin
  | | Song of Sampo Lake(1st Edition) (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage) by William Durbin Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-7569-2, ISBN: 0-8166-7569-4 "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 homestead in the wilderness. This means constant hard work and new challenges for the entire family. But will it also allow Matti, the in-between ..." |
 | | Dead Man's Rapids(Reprint) by William Durbin, Barbara Durbin Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2018 by Univ Of Minnesota Press - ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-0224-7, ISBN: 1-5179-0224-X "In late 1800s Minnesota, 13-year-old Ben Ward goes to work with his father in a lumber camp and signs up for a log drive with his friend Nevers, where together they endure freezing weather, dangerous rapids, logjams, storms, floods, and ..." |
 | | El Lector by William Durbin Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2014 by Pineapple Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56164-678-4, ISBN: 1-56164-678-4 "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 of the Depression mean that Bella must go to work in the factory; her hope of getting the education a lector needs seems impossible. Meanwhile ..." |
 | | Blackwater Ben(Reprint) (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage) by William Durbin Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2014 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-9192-0, ISBN: 0-8166-9192-4 "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, he dreams of working in the woods with the other men, felling trees, driving a team, and skidding timber. While enduring a long, cold winter i ..." |
 | | The Journal of Otto Peltonen A Finnish Immigrant Story (Paperback) by William Durbin Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Minnesota Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-1046-4, ISBN: 1-5179-1046-3 ""Otto Peltonen is a fictional character created by the author and his journal and its epilogue are works of fiction"--Copyright page." |
 | | Until the Last Spike, the Journal of Sean Sullivan, a Transcontinental Railroad Worker, Nebraska and Points West, 1867 (My Name Is America) by William Durbin Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2013 by Scholastic Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-545-53080-4, ISBN: 0-545-53080-6 "Acclaimed author William Durbin's exciting JOURNAL OF SEAN SULLIVAN is now in paperback with a dynamic repackaging! It's August 1897 and Sean has just arrived from Chicago, planning to work with his father on the Intercontinental Railroad. Sean must start at the bottom, as a water carrier, toting barrels of it to the thirsty men who are doing the backbreaking work on the line. At night, everyone is usually too tired to do anything but s ..." |
 | | Wintering(2nd Edition) by William Durbin, Johnna Hyde Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2009 by Raven Productions ISBN-13: 978-0-9801045-9-2, ISBN: 0-9801045-9-9 "After his second trip as a voyageur traveling in the big North canoes from Montreal to Grand Portage, Pierre La Page is going to winter over at the Northwest Company trading post on Lake Vermilion in northern Minnesota. But first he and his brigade must attend the rendezvous in Grand Portage, paddle the 200-mile route, befriend the Ojibwe people at the lake, build shelters for the cold, hard time to come, and put away food to see them t ..." |
 | | The Winter War(1st Edition) A Novel by William Durbin Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2008 by Wendy Lamb Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-385-74652-6, ISBN: 0-385-74652-0 "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 terrifying, and so are the odds against the Finns: the Russians have 4 times as many soldiers and 30 times as many planes. They have 3000 tanks ..." |
 | | Blackwater Ben(1st Edition) by William Durbin Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2003 by Wendy Lamb Books Clean ISBN-13: 978-0-385-72928-4, ISBN: 0-385-72928-6 "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 Ben wants to be doing.But the long cold winter in a camp filled with outlandish characters teaches Ben a lot about himself. Especially when an ..." |
 | | My Name Is America(1st Edition) The Journal Of Cj Jackson, A Dust Bowl Migrant by William Durbin Hardcover, 176 Pages, Published 2002 by Scholastic Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-439-15306-5, ISBN: 0-439-15306-9 "In another compelling entry from criticially-acclaimed author William Durbin, we meet C.J. Jackson, a young farmer whose family is forced to abandon their farm and seek a new life in California.April 10, 1935The dust has been blowing bad for several years in a row now. And with crop failures coming back to back like they have, hundreds of families have lost their farms. A Monday never passes without Sheriff Jake Allison posting a noti ..." |
 | | My Name Is America(1st Edition) The Journal Of Otto Peltonen, A Finnish Immigrant by William Durbin Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2000 by Scholastic Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-439-09254-8, ISBN: 0-439-09254-X "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." |
 | | The Broken Blade(Reprint) by William Durbin Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1998 by Yearling Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-440-41184-0, ISBN: 0-440-41184-X "In the summer of 1800, 13-year-old Pierre La Page never thought he'd be leaving Montreal to paddle 2,400 miles. It was something older men, like his father, did. But when Pierre's father has an accident, Pierre quits school and enlists to become a voyageur for the Northwest Fur Company. Without his wages, how would his family survive the winter?As the youngest member of the brigade, it's not easy for Pierre. Treacherous waters, aching a ..." |
 | | Swift Rivers(Reprint) by Cornelia Meigs, William Durbin, Jennifer L. Holm, Forrest W. Orr, Robert Lawson Paperback, 269 Pages, Published 2004 by Walker ISBN-13: 978-0-8027-7703-4, ISBN: 0-8027-7703-1 "Newbery Honor bookBarred from his family home-stead by his mean-spirited uncle, eighteen-year-old Chris weathers a Minnesota winter in a small cabin with his grandfather. Poverty and the tempting stories of a wandering Easterner convince Chris to harvest the trees on his grandfather's land and float the logs down the spring floodwaters of the Mississippi to the lumber mills in Saint Louis. Filled with stories of raft hands and river pil ..." |
 | | El Lector(Reprint) [Paperback] by William Durbin Paperback, 195 Pages, Published 2007 by Yearling Books ISBN-13: 978-0-553-48786-2, ISBN: 0-553-48786-8 "When factory workers clash with the cigar company owners, threatening the jobs of her grandfather and the other lectores--those who read to the Spanish-speaking workers--thirteen-year-old Bella looks to the radio to keep the tradition going ..." |
 | | The Darkest Evening(1st Edition) by William Durbin Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2004 by Orchard ISBN-13: 978-0-439-37307-4, ISBN: 0-439-37307-7 "A thrilling novel of a young boy's devastation when his father uproots him and moves their family to Russia, where a society of Finnish-Socialists attempt to found a workers' paradise.Jake's life is turned upside down when his father gets caught up in the Socialist fervor washing over their Finnish mining community in Minnesota. His father decides to move their family to a new, Finnish state inside the Soviet Union, a change that fills ..." |
 | | My Name Is America(1st Edition) The Journal Of Sean Sullivan, A Transcontinental Railroad Worker by William Durbin Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1999 by Scholastic Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-439-04994-8, ISBN: 0-439-04994-6 "This recent edition to the My Name Is America series presents a "first-hand" account of what life was like for a fifteen-year-old boy who worked on the Transcontinental Railroad in the mid-1800s alongside his father. 90,000 first printing." |
 | | El Lector The Reader by William Durbin Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2006 by Wendy Lamb Books ISBN-13: 978-0-385-74651-9, ISBN: 0-385-74651-2 |
 | | The Journal of Otto Peltonen(1st Edition) A Finnish Immigrant (My Name Is America series, A Dear America Book) by William Durbin Hardcover, 171 Pages, Published 2003 by Scholastic ISBN-13: 978-0-439-55500-5, ISBN: 0-439-55500-0 "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." |
 | | Song of Sampo Lake(1st Edition) by William Durbin Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2002 by Wendy Lamb Books ISBN-13: 978-0-385-32731-2, ISBN: 0-385-32731-5 "For Matti Ojala and his family, Finnish immigrants in Minnesota, starting a new life in America is both a hardship and an opportunity. When their beloved Uncle Wilho is killed in a tragic mining accident, the family decides they must realize their dream of owning a homestead in the wilderness. This means constant hard work and new challenges for the entire family. But it also means that Matti, the “in-between” child, has his chance to s ..." |
 | | Wintering by William Durbin Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1999 by Delacorte Books For Young Readers ISBN-13: 978-0-385-32598-1, ISBN: 0-385-32598-3 "Pierre, the 14-year-old hero of The Broken Blade, spends a winter with the North West Company in the wilderness of French Canada. The canoe-men build a camp beside an Ojibwa village, and Pierre learns the deep-winter survival skills and secrets of the fur traders and trappers. Surviving in close quarters with the repulsive bowman Beloit is a challenge, but friendship with an Ojibwa brave opens up a rich new world to Pierre. From the Tra ..." |
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