L. Frank Baum
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 2
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Tip and his creation, Jack Pumpkin, run away to Oz, where they save the city after it is captured by girls.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 5
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First published in 1909, L. Frank Baum's "The Road to Oz" is the fifth story by Baum of the magical Land of Oz and is the Dorothy's fourth visit to this special place. Baum takes the young Kansas girl and her faithful dog Toto on a circuitous journey to Oz for Princess Ozma's birthday. Dorothy begins her adventure trying to help a stranger, the Shaggy Man, find the road he seeks. They are joined on their way by a perpetually lost boy named Button...
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 8
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English
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Introduces Ann Soforth, Queen of Oogaboo, whom Tik-Tok, the clockwork man, assists in conquering the Nome King.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 7
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"The Story focuses on Ojo the Unlucky is a Munchkin boy who, devoted to life with his uncle Unc Nunkie in the wilderness but when on the verge of starvation, goes to see a local 'magician' and old friend of Unc, Dr. Pipt. While there they see a demonstration of the Pipt-made Powder of Life, which animates any object it touches"--
10) Rinkitink in Oz
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When all the inhabitants of Pingaree are kidnapped by the mongrel hordes of twin island kingdoms, Prince Inga and his friend King Rinkitink decide to go to the rescue.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 12
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The Tin Woodsman of Oz (1918), a bestseller upon its publication, was a welcome victory for its author L. Frank Baum. After nearly a decade of declining book sales, the twelfth book in Baum's Land of Oz series-and the last to be published in his lifetime-was a critical and commercial success that reinvigorated public interest in his iconic work.
In the safety of his palace in Winkie Country-where he was made Emperor after the Wizard of Oz gave...
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 4
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English
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During a California earthquake Dorothy falls into the underground Land of the Manaboos where she again meets the Wizard of Oz.
14) The Wizard of Oz
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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title-offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.
This edition of The Wizard of Oz includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword...
15) Ozma of Oz
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 3
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English
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Ozma of Oz finds Dorothy and her new friend, the talking hen Billina, shipwrecked in the mysterious Land of Ev. After narrowly escaping the evil Princess Langwidere, Dorothy is reunited with familiar companions the Tin Woodsman, the Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion on a quest to rescue the royal family of Ev from the clutches of the tyrannical Nome King. But to win the royal family's freedom Dorothy and her friends must play the trickster King's games....
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A Kidnapped Santa Claus is a Christmas-themed short story written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz, it has been called "one of Baum's most beautiful stories" and constitutes an influential contribution to the mythology of Christmas.
A Kidnapped Santa Claus was first published in the December 1904 edition of The Delineator, the women's magazine that would print Baum's Animal Fairy Tales in the following year. The magazine...
18) Glinda of Oz
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 14
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English
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While trying to prevent a war between the Skeezers and the Flatheads, Ozma and Dorothy find themselves prisoners on the former's underwater island in a remote corner of the Land of Oz. Only their guard, the war-queen Coo-ee-oh, knows how to raise the island back to the surface, but when she's transformed into a swan and loses her magic, Glinda the Good Witch must figure out how to raise the island and rescue her friends. Glinda of Oz is the fourteenth,...
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American Fairy Tales is the title of a collection of twelve fantasy stories by L. Frank Baum, published in 1901 by the George M. Hill Company, the firm that issued The Wonderful Wizard of Oz the previous year. The twelve stories were published in this order in the first edition. "The Box of Robbers." "The Glass Dog." "The Queen of Quok." "The Girl Who Owned a Bear." "The Enchanted Types." "The Laughing Hippopotamus." "The Magic Bon Bons." "The Capture...
20) Sky Island
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Sky Island (1912) is a novel by L. Frank Baum. A sequel to The Sea Fairies (1911), Sky Island was part of a larger series of planned novels that Baum hoped would move beyond the universe he created for his Oz books. Discouraged by poor reviews of The Sea Fairies, however, Baum featured several characters from The Road to Oz (1909) in Sky Island, including Button Bright and Polychrome. A young Californian girl named Trot meets a strange boy from Philadelphia...