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Mother Carey’s Chickens is a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin published in 1911 by Houghton Mifflin. It tells the story of a poor but happy family of four children who in spite of being fatherless make the lives of others better. Their home life becomes complicated when Julia a snobbish cousin comes to live with them. The Carey children suffer many disappointments (Gilbert must forego college for example) but Julia is transformed when she realizes happiness has little to do with wealth.