Mary Jane Auch

Pauline the Hen's efforts to lay eggs result in unusual eggs in the image of whatever she was looking at while concentrating. A windfall for her Easter egg-selling owner, her ability produces a bigger surprise when some of the eggs start to hatch!

After his mother is severely injured in an accident and his father kicks him out of the house, thirteen-year-old Travis attempts to survive on his own until he meets a guitar maker and some musicians who take him in and help him regain his confidence so that he can try to patch his family back together.

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.