Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota.

The Song of the Lark is the self-portrait of an artist in the making. The story revolves around an ambitious young girl, Thea, who leaves home to go to the big city to fulfill her dream of becoming a famous opera star. Along the way, her realization of the mediocrity of her peers propels her to greater levels of accomplishment, but in the course of her ascent she must discard those relationships which no longer serve her.

On a Minnesota farm in the mid 1800's, the hard working members of the Larson family find time to celebrate Kirsten's tenth birthday.

Inga is the Plain Jane of the Linberg sisters, and as the dutiful oldest daughter, she is resigned to a quiet life helping her father with his Lutheran ministry in Iowa. Enter Dirk Bridges, a dairy farmer looking for help in caring for two young nieces and ailing mother. When Inga agrees to be his live-in housekeeper, she really doesn't expect to fall in love with the little girls or their lonely, complicated uncle.

When Kirsten's new friend Erik disappears, she has to figure out whether he ran away to get out of some promises he made, or whether something else has happened.

Ten-year-old Kirsten regrets the promise she has made to a ragged boy she discovers alone near a wrecked covered wagon not far from her Minnesota home.

Describes the role played by early Swedish settlers in Minnesota history and culture.

While his friends prepare for college, Oscar decides his future is working with his grandfather on their food truck Hej Hej!, but when Oscar unexpectedly gets his first taste of adulthood he realizes his plans may be half-baked. High school senior Oscar Olsson hates school, struggles to read, and wants nothing to do with college. He knows exactly what he wants: to run a food truck with Farfar, the Swedish grandfather who's raised him, selling rullekebab...