Shaw, Janet,

Ten-year old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natrual treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to a great danger by trying to harvest the honey herself.

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

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

A tough Minnesota winter brings many changes to Kirten's frontier life, including the new responsibility of helping her brother Lars set his traps and a move into a new house for her parents.

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

After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten aendures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl.

While looking for Steps High, the horse that had been stolen from her, Kaya faces danger from a sudden mountain fire.

When Kaya and her family join with other Nez Perce and Salish Indians to fish for the red salmon, she and her older sister hope to be reunited with their younger sister, who had been kidnapped some time before.

Still grieving over the death of her hero, and missing her stolen horse and kidnapped younger sister, Kaya tries to earn the trust of a lone and starving dog who is about to have puppies.

In 1764, Kaya greatly admires a courageous and kind young woman in her Neq Perce village and wants to be worthy of her respect.