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...

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...

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,...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Mary Louise Solves a Mystery opens with a wrenching deathbed farewell, as young Alora "Lory" is told by her dying mother, Tony Seaver, that her long-absent father, Jason Jones, is finally coming to claim her. What follows is a story of grief, suspicion, and hard-won trust, as Mary Louise enters Alora's troubled world and begins to sense that the adults around her are hiding far more than they reveal. When Dr. Anstruther summons Jason to his wife's bedside, the man's delay, demand for money...

In Riverdale, Phoebe Daring finds herself drawn into a tangle of loyalty, justice, and legal mystery when Toby Clark is left adrift after the sudden death of Judge Ferguson. Once a poor, overlooked orphan, Toby earned the judge's trust through courage, hard work, and the injury he suffered saving Ferguson's life, and he has grown into a thoughtful law student with a keen eye for details. But the judge's will leaves him with nothing, and Toby must face grief, prejudice, and the humiliation ...

At a tense patriotic mass meeting in Dorfield, Colonel James Hathaway calls on the town to buy Liberty Bonds, and his granddaughter Mary Louise Burrows watches proudly as the crowd is stirred to action. The drive is nearly lost when the controversial German-American clothier Jake Kasker denounces the war even as he declares loyalty to America, then shocks everyone by buying bonds himself. His gesture breaks the deadlock, but suspicion and resentment linger, and Mary Louise begins to see th...

At Miss Stearne's School for Girls, fifteen-year-old Mary Louise Burrows stands apart for her calm judgment and practical mind, even when her classmates rage against the school's strict new rules and shabby conditions. She refuses to rebel blindly, instead questioning whether Miss Stearne's severity may be meant to shield them from the unsettling influence of the local picture theater. That moral seriousness reflects the life she has already lived: a childhood of upheaval, moving from plac...