Thomas Glahn is quite content living in a hut at the edge of the forest with only his faithful dog, Aesop, to keep him company until a strange girl enters his life.
While enduring a bleak existence in a hospital for lepers in Norway during the early 1800s, thirteen-year-old Tora tries to find meaning in a life surrounded by death.
A fictionalized account of how a group of Norwegian children carried bullion to the sea on their sleds, thus helping their country move its gold reserves to the United States during the German occupation.
Inger, an ambitious young reindeer buck, finally proves that he is reliable when the herd is surprised by a spring snowstorm in the Lapland area of Norway.
Inspector Konrad Sejer investigates when eight-year-old Jonas August Lowe is found murdered in Linde Forest, and the case becomes critical when a second child goes missing; while Reinhardt Ris, the man who discovered and photographed Jonas's body while out walking with his horrified wife, becomes more and more obsessed with the boy's death.
In 1940, when the Nazi invasion of Norway reaches their village in the far north, twelve-year-old Peter and his friends use their sleds to transport nine million dollars worth of gold bullion past the German soldiers to the secret harbor where Peter's uncle keeps his ship ready to take the gold for safekeeping in the United States.
New friends Nilly and Lisa help eccentric professor Doctor Proctor to develop his latest invention, a powder that makes one fart, making them very popular at school, but someone is planning to steal the industrial-strength formula for evil purposes.
