sweden

In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee the Nazis in Austria, but while eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, twelve-year-old Stephie feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who is as cold and unforgiving as the island on which they live.

A sixty-six-year-old grandfather, barred from entering the 1000-mile Tour of Sweden because of his age, unofficially joins the bicycle race and, to the delight of his countrymen, emerges victorious.

Pippi and her friends, Tommy and Annika, attend the circus where Pippi walks the tightrope and wrestles with the "World's Strongest Man.".

On a snowy day in a small Swedish village, mischievous Elizabeth gets into trouble when she hides on the back of a farmer's sleigh and is taken for a very long ride.

Disappointed that she didn't get a bicycle for her birthday, five-year-old Lotta, confident that she knows how to ride, decides to take matters into her own hands and borrow the neighbor's bicycle.

Sixteen-year-old Calista travels to Stockholm, Sweden, for a semester abroad, glad to escape her annoying twin sister and looking forward to spending every possible moment with her boyfriend, Jonas, whom she met while he was an exchange student at her Wisconsin school--but when she arrives, it seems her plans will have to change.

Having left Nazi-occupied Vienna a year ago, thirteen-year-old Jewish refugee Stephie Steiner adapts to life in the cultured Swedish city of Gothenburg, where she attends school, falls in love, and worries about her parents who were not allowed to emigrate.

Text and photographs introduce Europe's third largest country, its cities, industries, and customs.

Ten-year-old Lisa tells about her brothers and playmates and the happy times they spend at work and at play in their Swedish village.