Ten-year-old Kirsten finds a bee tree full of honey.

Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-19th-century Minnesota

A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirsten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move i

Wherever Kirsten goes in her hometown of Ryd, Sweden, there is one word on everyone's lips: America. All around her, crops are failing and families are one bad

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.