Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun

"Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun" by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen is a series of tales that show what life was like for young boys growing up in Norway in the 1800s. It's all about being a kid, with stories of friendship, fighting, and using your imagination to play games in the beautiful Norwegian countryside. To start with you meet the East-Siders and the West-Siders, two groups of boys who are always competing with each other. Viggo Hook is a fancy leader of the West-Siders and Halvor Reitan is the tough leader of the East-Siders. As the story goes on, their fighting gets more intense, and Marcus Henning, who isn't very good at things but is loyal, gets involved, leading to surprising results because of his support for Viggo. The stories show how friendships work, how conflicts happen, and how boys become men, pulling readers into a world full of excitement and the challenges of figuring out who you are.