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Author
Lexile measure
AD 750L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The story that started it all and spawned a series of film adaptations that have become the stuff of silver screen legend: 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' by L. Frank Baum is in fact the first in a series of novels set in Oz, but it is by far the most famous. Published right at the turn of the century in the year 1900, the novel's fantastical setting---a world inhabited by zany creatures and terrifying villains---is a perfect sort of quaint escapism...
Author
Series
Wonder books volume 577
Pub. Date
1951
Physical Desc
19 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
How and why wonder books volume 5042
Pub. Date
1963
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
17) Roads
Author
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the nature and history of roads built in ancient and modern times for travel by wheeled vehicles.
19) Rip Van Winkle
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.
20) Dorothy of Oz
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
166 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the aid of Lion, Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Tugg the talking boat, Dorothy battles Jester, who is using the dead Wicked Witch's magic wand to turn the citizens of Oz into porcelain dolls.