Books like The Patchwork Girl of Oz
12 books with a reading profile close to The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Practical, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature
In this graphic novel adaptation, Dorothy Gale is swept from her Kansas farm by a cyclone and deposited in the Land of Oz.
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The Green Fairy Book
by Andrew Lang
Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature
The Green Fairy Book is the third installment in a series of global folklore anthologies edited by Andrew Lang.
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The Wizard of Oz
Also clear-cut and escapist · accessible, classic literature
When a cyclone uproots a Kansas farmhouse, Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, land in the vibrant Land of Oz.
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The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature
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Alice in Wonderland
by Jane Carruth
Also practical · accessible, classic literature
This retelling of Lewis Carroll’s classic follows a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a subterranean realm where logic is discarded.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature
Charlie Bucket lives in a cramped, freezing shack with his parents and four bedridden grandparents, surviving on thin cabbage soup.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Also clear-cut · accessible, classic literature
Dorothy Gale is a young girl living on a grey Kansas farm until a cyclone carries her house to the Land of Oz.
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Prince Caspian
Also clear-cut · accessible, classic literature
Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie return to Narnia centuries after their reign as kings and queens, finding the land under the occupation of the Telmarines.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, classic literature
Robert Louis Stevenson’s collection of sixty-four poems captures the solitary play and vivid internal life of a Victorian child.
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The son of sobek
by Rick Riordan
Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, fantasy
In this short story, Demigod Percy Jackson and Magician Carter Kane collide while hunting a giant, supernatural crocodile in Long Island.
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The Sea of Monsters
by Rick Riordan
Also practical and clear-cut · accessible, fantasy
Percy Jackson discovers that the magical pine tree protecting Camp Half-Blood has been poisoned, leaving the sanctuary vulnerable to monster attacks.
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Also clear-cut and escapist · accessible, classic literature
Bilbo Baggins, a quiet hobbit who prefers the safety of his underground home, is recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a party of thirteen dwarves to serve as a professional thief.
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