The Darkest Evening
  • Published:
    Jan-2011
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    Historical
  • Time Period:
    20th Century
  • Pages:
    248
  • Age Level:
    08-12
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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 fervor washing over their Finnish mining community in Minnesota, moves their family to the Soviet Union.

Instead of finding the utopia they were promised, Jake and his family encounter only disappointment and hardship. When Stalin's secret police begin targeting Americans for arrest, his worst fears are confirmed, and Jake leads his family on a daring midwinter escape attempt on cross-country skis, fleeing toward the Finnish border.
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Feb-2011
    • Univ Of Minnesota Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0816675686
    • ISBN13: 9780816675685
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    • Jan-2001
    • University of Minnesota Press
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0816677158
    • ISBN13: 9780816677153
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    • Nov-2004
    • Orchard (Scholastic)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0439373077
    • ISBN13: 9780439373074
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    • Feb-2011
    • Univ Of Minnesota Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Nov-2013
    • Univ Of Minnesota Press
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Dec-2013
    • University of Minnesota Press
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1452931313
    • ISBN13: 9781452931319



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