Louise Hoffsten

When the fish runs out at the South Pole, Pelé Penguin and his parents are forced to move to his uncle Fernandez in Stockholm. Pelé has trouble adjusting to big city life and his clothes and way of talking and eating attract mockery. But when Pelé falls in love with a penguin girl named Madeleine, his life takes a different turn.

When the war breaks out, Annika lives with her parents in Värmland, close to the border to Norway. Her cousin Harald is a dealer in the black market but has to escape from the police to Norway. Annika moves to Stockholm and gets a job as a waitress. She meets the happy-go-lucky Berit and together they have a wonderful time. She also meets a young man, Bengt, whom she marries. But almost immediately she discovers that her husband is different from the man who was courting her. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.