Author(s): L. Frank Baum; Carly Gledhill (Illustrator)

8-12 (Older Readers)

When a storm rages through the Kansas countryside, little Dorothy finds that she and her farmhouse have been swallowed up by a tornado and spirited off to the magical Land of Oz. But when she finds that her house has fallen on the Wicked Witch of the East, all Dorothy wants is to go back to Kansas. To return home, she'll have to undertake a perilous journey along the yellow brick road to Emerald City, where only the powerful Wizard of Oz can help her.

Published in 1900 as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz today this classic story is best known as simply The Wizard of Oz, the title of its iconic 1939 film adaptation.