The Darkest Evening
by William Durbin
In the 1930s, some 6,000 Finnish Americans traveled to Karelia, a province in... read more
- Grade
- 4-12
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
Year Published 2004
Word Count 40,854
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 790L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 80704
- Curricular Area
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Communism
- 20th century
- Finnish Americans--Russia (Federation)--Karelia--Fiction
- Karelia (Russia)
- History
- Russia (Federation)
- Emigration and immigration
- Finnish Americans--Russia (Federation)--Karelia--Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | Europe
- Karelia (Russia)--History--20th century--Fiction
- Russia (Federation)--History--20th century--Fiction
- Karelia
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction
- Communism--Fiction
- Finnish Americans
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