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When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death.

Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.

While trying to escape from a wolf, four frightened chickens keep getting themselves into the very predicaments they are trying to avoid.

An industrious red hen does all the work involved in making and baking the ingredients of a cake, while a dog, cat and mouse sit idly by.

The chickens' dream is to see the farmhouse, and they go out in search of it.

Before she hatches from her egg, a baby chick takes a trip around the farm, with her mother and the other animals in pursuit.

Red is so excited that Gwen has laid a nest full of eggs, he rushes out to buy a worm to feed each of the increasing number of chicks as they hatch.

When life on the Tucker farm is disrupted by the arrival of a peacock, whose shrieking and strutting bring many welcome visitors, the hens complain that they are doing all of the work until the hound suggests a trade.

When she notices several unattended, colorful eggs in the barnyard, the hen named Minerva Louise worries that they are abandoned and cold.

Chicken wants Scarecrow's straw hat and proceeds to go about trading objects in order to obtain it.