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.

Carl Erik, a recent immigrant from Sweden, becomes the man of the house when his father and uncle go to work in a logging camp, and he learns many things about life in Minnesota while attending school, doing his chores, and trying to put meat on the table.

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

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.

Visiting her favorite aunt in Minnesota, genealogist Torie O'Shea learns that her aunt has discovered the 150-year-old diary of a young Swedish woman whose life turned violent after falling in love with a man forbidden to her.

Nine-year-old Kirsten and her family experience many hardships as they travel from Sweden to the Minnesota frontier in 1854.

Hilda Johansson is delighted by her reunion with her family, but when one of her brother's friends turns up badly beaten, Hilda turns sleuth to uncover the truth.

Hilda, a servant of the Studebaker household, who has a knack for solving crimes, is investigating the murder of a local politician.

Another mystery involving the maid Hilda Johansson, the immigrant who migrated in the early 1900s to America to find the American dream, who works for the Studebaker Estate in South Bend, Indiana. The story takes us in the middle of turmoil in the Studebaker Estate, with President McKinley just being assassinated. Hilda Johansson expects the coachman for the Studebakers may be involved in the assassination. Despite pleas for her to mind her own business...

Presents a look at daily life in pioneer America during the 1850s by following a family that emigrates from Sweden to Minnesota.