Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1987
  • Latest Book:
    January 2015
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Full Series List in Order

I Was a Third Grade

I Was a Third Grade Science Project (Mar-1998)
I Was A Third Grade Spy (Mar-2001)
I Was a Third Grade Bodyguard (Jun-2003)

Mem Nye

1 - Journey to Nowhere (1997)
2 - Frozen Summer (Nov-1998)
3 - Road to Home (Jul-2000)

Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • The Witching of Ben Wagner

    When twelve-year-old Ben moves with his family to a town on the shore of Lake Ontario he finds a friend who seems to be a witch and who helps him meet the problems associated with his moving and with his stormy relationships with his father and big s...

  • Angel and Me

  • Cry Uncle!

  • Pick Of The Litter

  • Glass Slippers Give You Blisters

  • Mom Is Dating Weird Wayne

  • Angel and Me and the Bayside Bombers

  • The Easter Egg Farm

    Mrs. Pennywort''s hen, Pauline, can''t seem to lay eggs like the others. . . . Until she finds some inspiration, and a strange talent.
     
    When she nests outside to get away from the noise and teasing of the others, Pauline manages to lay...

  • Kidnapping Kevin Kowalski



  • A Sudden Change of Family

    Summers with my family were almost perfect...

    That's when we'd go out to Whitmarsh Point, where my grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins lived. We'd swim and have lobster bakes, and I'd spend all my time with my best friend, my cousin Juli...

  • The Latchkey Dog

  • Seven long years until College

  • Peeping Beauty

    Starstruck by her dream of becoming a famous ballerina, Poulette the hen is nearly taken in by a slick talent scout (a fox) who offers her the lead in his production of "Peeping Beauty."...

  • Hen Lake

    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. ...

  • Eggs Mark the Spot

    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....

  • Journey to Nowhere

    Mem Nye - 1

    In the spring of 1815, Remembrance “Mem” Nye and her family set off in a covered wagon from their farm in Connecticut to the wilderness of western New York. Mem and her mother see it as a journey to nowhere, since there won't be any houses or nei...

  • Bantam of the Opera

  • I Was a Third Grade Science Project

    I Was a Third Grade

    It sure is handy having Brian the Brain for a best friend -- how else would Josh have a shot at first prize in the science fair and winning tickets to Wonderland Lake? But when Brian plans to hypnotize his dog, Arfie, into thinking he’s a cat, Josh...

  • Frozen Summer

    Mem Nye - 2

    In 1815 Remembrance "Mem" Nye and her family pack up their covered wagon and head for the Genesee Country in western New York for a better life. But their first summer in their new home proves more difficult than they ever imagined. Papa's crops are ...



  • Noah's Aardvark

    When Lester the aardvark, not knowing that Noah is choosing the animals in alphabetical order, arrives too late to be taken on the ark, he determines to get aboard anyway by trying to disguise himself as some other creature...

  • The Nutquacker

    When one little duck becomes too eager to wait for the Christmas surprise, she sets off on her own into the wood to find out the secret, yet after a grand adventure, she returns home just in time for the Christmas party....

  • Road to Home

    Mem Nye - 3

    Thirteen-year-old Remembrance “Mem” Nye has had much more than her share of responsibility since her mother died. It’s too hard caring for her younger brother and baby sister, and Mem looks forward to returning to the family fold at her grandmo...

  • Egg Series

  • I Was A Third Grade Spy

    I Was a Third Grade

    Believe it or not -- and you better believe it -- Josh's dog Arful can talk! This is very useful to Josh and his pals who want to win the school talent contest. First the boys have to find out what the girls are planning for the contest. That's when ...

  • Souperchicken

  • I Was a Third Grade Bodyguard

    I Was a Third Grade

  • The Princess and the Pizza

    It's tough to be an out-of-work princess.

    After her royal father decides to retire and become a wood carver, Princess Paulina has no idea what to do with herself. She can't survey the kingdom from her leaky cottage roof, and no one waves bac...

  • Poultrygeist

    Whoooooo! A tall ghostly being is frightening the farm animals right out of the barn. It could only be the legendary "Poultrygeist." The animals are terrified to sleep inside the barn, but they're freezing out in the yard. What shold they do? It's up...

  • Ashes of Roses

    A “spirited” young adult novel of a teen immigrant’s challenges in NYC has “vivid period detail and strong female characters . . . [and] a hopeful conclusion” (Publishers Weekly).The compelling story of a young girl’s newfo...



  • Chickerella

    Chickerella by Mary Jane Auch (who, PW said, earns a feather in her cap for her deadpan presentation of absurdity and triumph for Bantam of the Opera), illus. by Mary Jane and Herm Auch, stars the titular white feathered bird. When her widower fat...

  • Beauty and the Beaks

    Beauty and her friends think Lance is the most conceited bird in the hen yard. From the moment the turkey arrives on the farm, he spends his time swaggering around the Chic Hen beauty shop, boasting that he is the only bird invited to a special feast...

  • Wing Nut

    Twelve-year-old Grady Flood and his mom, Lila, have been on the road ever since Grady's dad died seven years ago. When their old car breaks down, they find themselves stranded in rural Pennsylvania where Lila gets work as a cook and caretaker. There'...

  • The Plot Chickens

    Henrietta loves to read. When she clucks buk, buk, buk at the library, the librarian knows exactly what to recommend. Then Henrietta decides to write a book. With the help of her three aunties, she hatches a plot. But when Henrietta publishes her sto...

  • One-Handed Catch

    Not even losing his hand can keep Norm from trying out for the baseball team What would life be like with only one hand? That's exactly what eleven-year-old Norm finds out when he loses his left hand in an accident at his family's store. It's July 4,...

  • A Dog on His Own

    A funny and moving middle-grade novel for dog lovers by popular author Mary Jane Auch. Other dogs are K-9s. But K-10 is a cut above other dogs, and his mother gave hime the name to prove it when he was a puppy. Now K-10 is grown up and all on his own...

  • Guitar Boy

    Travis Tacey doesn’t have it easy: his mom’s in the hospital suffering from brain trauma after a terrible car accident, and his father has lost his good sense in the aftermath and kicked him out. Homeless, penniless, and only fourteen years old, ...

  • One Plus One Equals Blue

    Twelve year-old Basil knows he’s special -- he’s been associating numbers with colors since he was a kid. His gift (or curse) has turned him into somewhat of a loner, but his world begins to change when he meets Tenzie, the new girl in school who...

  • The Buk Buk Buk Festival

    Feathers fly and humor abounds as the literary adventures continue for Henrietta, the talented chicken from THE PLOT CHICKENS. Thrilled to have her picture book published, Henrietta is all aflutter with excitement when she's invited to a local boo...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch has published 38 books.

Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Buk Buk Buk Festival, was published in January 2015.

The first book by Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch, The Witching of Ben Wagner, was published in October 1987.

Yes. Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch has 2 series.
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