Four years after writing his immensely popular The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum returned to the Land of Oz in this second book of fourteen he wrote about the magical country. Like its predecessor, The Marvelous Land of Oz has delighted children through the years, and has been adapted into stage plays, films, and comics.A young boy named Tip lives in Gillikin Country in Oz with an old witch named Mombi. When Mombi threatens to turn Tip into a statue, he es...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the classic American children's novel about the adventures of Dorothy, a young girl who along with her dog Toto is swept away by a cyclone to the magical Land of Oz. It was written by L. Frank Baum and published in May 1900.Dorothy lives with her Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and Toto on a farm in the Kansas prairie. One day, Dorothy and Toto are caught up in a cyclone that deposits her farmhouse into Munchkin Country in the magical Land of Oz. The fa...

The Road to Oz tells the story of Dorothy Gale as she escorts a shaggy traveler who appears outside her farm. They soon find themselves transported to a fantasy land. Upon realizing this, Dorothy and the Shaggy Man travel down the road with the assumption that it will lead them to Oz, revealing a way for Dorothy to return home.The story, published in 1909, is a return to Oz at the request of Baum's readers and features guest appearances from characters of his other fantasy...

Dorothy Gale, accompanied by her cat, Eureka, is traveling to visit her Uncle Henry and her other relatives in California, when she encounters her second cousin, Zeb. While en route in a horse-drawn buggy, an earthquake strikes, creating a vast crevasse into which Dorothy, Zeb, Eureka, and a cab-horse named Jim fall.While underground, they encounter the Wizard, who was last seen flying off in a balloon at the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He and his balloon were also ...

Three years after the publication of The Marvelous Land of Oz and encouraged by young fans' letters, L. Frank Baum once more returned to write about lands full of magic and wonder.On a ship on her way to Australia for a holiday with Uncle Henry, Dorothy Gale gets tossed overboard during a storm. Washing ashore in a chicken-coop, Dorothy and her newfound friend, a hen she names Billina, embark on an exploration of the new land. After meeting old friends and making new ones,...

In postwar Dorfield, Mary Louise Hathaway is impossible to ignore: spirited, generous, and determined to meet the returning regiment with open arms. Beside her stands Colonel Hathaway, her Civil War veteran grandfather, whose caution only sharpens her eagerness to help the "boys" come home and to find work, dignity, and a place in peacetime for any stranger left behind. When the train arrives, Mary Louise's joy turns practical as she notices the unfamiliar soldiers among the crowd and sets...

The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and that relates the "history" of the Land of Oz. Oz was originally created by author L. Frank Baum, who went on to write fourteen Oz books. Although most of the Oz books are strictly adventures, Baum as well as many later Oz authors styled themselves as "Royal Historians" of Oz to emphasize that Oz is a genuine place. Later authors wrote 26 other "official" books after Baum's death. Many other authors have put th...

Eltanin Publishing's Oz Series - #1The book that started it all. If you've never had the pleasure of reading the original version (silver slippers?!) of the story as Baum and Denslow intended, this is the best (perhaps the only) digital version with ALL the illustrations included.~~ Over 150 color illustrations - ALL of the originals - are included. Illustrations look great on both e-ink and color devices. ~~~~ DRM-Free so you can easily copy it to all your ereading...

[List of Oz books]The Wonderful Wizard of OzThe Marvelous Land of OzThe Woggle-Bug BookOzma of OzDorothy and the Wizard in OzThe Road to OzThe Emerald City of Oz08.The Patchwork Girl of OzLittle Wizard Stories of OzTik-Tok of OzThe Scarecrow of OzRinkitink in OzThe Lost Princess of OzThe Tin Woodman of OzThe Magic of Oz...

In L. Frank Baum's enchanted Land of Oz, imagination and danger walk hand in hand. Tip, a spirited boy trapped in hard labor under the suspicious witch Mombi in Gillikin country, survives by stealing moments of freedom—climbing trees, fishing, and plotting mischief against her control. His prank of building a scarecrow-like wooden man with a pumpkin head becomes something far stranger when Mombi uses the magical Powder of Life and Jack Pumpkinhead suddenly awakens, funny, solemn, and unfor...

In the sun-baked grandeur of Egypt, The Last Egyptian unfolds as a romantic adventure of buried treasure, ancient curses, and dangerous desire along the Nile. From the poverty-stricken village of Fedah near old Qes to the glittering excess of Cairo, the story moves between ruined antiquity and modern ambition, where papyrus clues, talismans, mummies, kidnappings, and shifting loyalties shape every turn. At its center is Kāra, a prince and gambler whose icy self-command masks mounting confl...

The Daring Twins opens with the lively, restless energy of a family trying to hold itself together under pressure. At breakfast, Phil, Phœbe, Becky, Donald, and Sue spar with Aunt Hyacinth, then turn their attention to the wealthy newcomers across the street, whose arrival stirs old memories of the home their family lost after their father's death. Beneath the teasing and comic bickering lies a harsher reality: their grandfather is paralyzed, Cousin Judith and the stern Miss Halliday keep ...