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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum

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In the first of L. Frank Baum's time-honored Oz novels, country girl Dorothy Gale gets whisked away by a cyclone to the fantastical Land of Oz. Dropped into the midst of trouble when her farmhouse crushes a tyrannical sorceress, Dorothy incurs the wrath of the Wicked Witch of the West. Dorothy is desperate to return to her native Kansas, and, aided by the Good Witch of the North, she sets out for the Emerald City to get help from the legendary Wizard. On her way, she meets three unlikely allies

First published: 1900 259 pages
Category
Fantasy
Priority
Recommended
Author works
4
Language
eng
Subjects
Category: AdventureCategory: American LiteratureCategory: Children & Young Adult ReadingCategory: Science-Fiction & FantasyChildren's LiteratureCourage -- Juvenile fictionCowardly Lion (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fictionCyclones -- Juvenile fictionDreams -- Juvenile fictionFantasyFantasy literatureGale, Dorothy (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fictionGood and evil -- Juvenile fictionHome -- Juvenile fictionOz (Imaginary place) -- Juvenile fictionScarecrow (Fictitious character from Baum) -- Juvenile fictionTin Woodman (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fictionToto (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fictionWitches -- Juvenile fictionWizard of Oz (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction

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