Mary Jane Auch
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
When Lance, a very pretentious turkey, arrives on the farm and boasts that he is the only bird invited to a special feast, no hen is impressed, but when Beauty learns that Lance is the main course, she convinces the others to save him.
6) Poultrygeist
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
On Halloween night, two rowdy young roosters encounter a "poultrygeist" in the barn.
8) Chickerella
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
This barnyard version of the Cinderella story features a mild-mannered chicken, a fashion-conscious Fairy Goosemother, and a prince at a Fowl Ball. When Chickerella's new stepmother and stepsisters, Ovumelda and Cholestera, move in, life in the chicken coop takes a turn for the worse. Forced to cook and clean for her new family, Chickerella won't even be able to attend the Fowl Ball, that is, until her Fairy Goosemother appears. The unusually stylish...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Henrietta the chicken loves to read so much that she decides to write a book herself, but first no one will publish a book written by a chicken, and then, when she publishes it herself and it gets a terrible review in "The Corn Book," Henrietta is devastated.
13) Hen lake
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Tired of the bragging of Percival the peacock, Poulette convinces the other hens in the barnyard that they can outperform the boastful bird in a ballet she creates.
15) Souperchicken
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
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.
16) One-handed catch
Author
Language
English
Description
After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.
17) Ashes of roses
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Margaret Rose Nolan, newly arrived from Ireland, finds work at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Factory shortly before the 1911 fire in which 146 employees died.
Author
Series
Pioneer trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1815, while traveling by covered wagon to settle in the wilderness of western New York, eleven-year-old Mem experiences a flood and separation from her family.