Books with author Mary Jane Auch

This barnyard version of the Cinderella story features a mild-mannered chicken, a fashion-conscious Fairy Goosemother, and a prince at a Fowl Ball.

In a companion volume to The Easter Egg Farm, Pauline, a hen that can lay an egg with an image of whatever she is looking at, becomes a heroine when her special talent provides the vital clues to a burglary.

Practicing ballet moves rather than scratching for bugs or laying eggs, Poulette the dancing chicken challenges the obnoxious Percival Peacock to a talent contest and trains her fellow chickens to perform Hen Lake.

What a lonely place for Elisabeth -- only empty summer cottages and sandy roads without cars and people. But she does find a friend in Henry, the boy with shabby clothes who lives on the Point. Together they must solve the mystery of the burnings and thefts—and do it during a raging hurricane!

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Pauline the hen uses her talent for laying eggs with the image of what she sees to help capture the thief who has stolen a famous painting from an art gallery.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After losing his hand in an accident at the family store, eleven-year-old Norm must find a way to cope with the tragedy and overcome his disability in order to completely live the life of his dreams.

When Henrietta becomes the first chicken in her coop to learn how to read, she uses her skills to save her aunties from becoming chicken soup.

After a serious bike accident, Kevin Kowalski's friends are worried about the way he is being treated, and in a misguided effort to help Kevin, they decide to kidnap him

When Henrietta becomes the first chicken in her coop to learn how to read, she uses her skills to save her aunties from becoming chicken soup.

Poulette the dancing hen falls into the clutches of a hungry fox, who exploits her desire to become a great ballerina

Jenna is unhappy with her recently separated mother's new boyfriend, wacky weatherman Wayne Weston, and does everything in her powers to dissuade her younger brother and her mom from making him part of the family