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Title: Abducted to Oz
Author: Bob Evans and Chris Dulabone
Release Date: November 19, 2003 [EBook #10127]
Language: English
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ABDUCTED to OZ
BY
Bob Evans & Chris Dulabone.
Founded on and Continuing the Famous Oz Stories
by L. Frank Baum.
Illustrated by Dennis Anfuso.
List of Chapters
Chapter I
The Abduction
Chapter 2
Historical Background
Chapter 3
Prelude to the Parade
Chapter 4
An Unfortunate Outcome
Chapter 5
The Best Laid Plans
Chapter 6
Spellbound!
Chapter 7
An Alien Presence
Chapter 8
A Strange Encounter
Chapter 9
Captured Again!
Chapter 10
A Mystical Experience
Chapter 11
The Winkle Country
Chapter 12
The Meeting with Princess Ozma
Chapter 13
A Window, A Window
Chapter 14
Jeanne-Marie
Chapter 15
Can't Stand in the Way of Love
Chapter 16
A Story with a Happy Ending
This book is dedicated to
Graham Dunn
Whose love and enthusiasm for all things Oz is a true inspiration.
CHAPTER ONE:
THE ABDUCTION
The boy was doing his homework. His parents had taken his little brother
to see _Return to Oz_ at the movie theater. He had seen it when it first
came out and, although he enjoyed it at the time, he felt he was getting
too old for that sort of stuff. Besides, he had too much work to do. It
seemed to him that each teacher allocated enough work to practically
take up a fellow's entire evening--as if their class was the only one.
So Graham, for that was his name, knew he would have to work for several
more hours if he was to complete all the assignments.
Graham began to work on his math problems, but he could not concentrate.
His mind drifted off to the original L. Frank Baum story: _The Wonderful
Wizard of Oz_. He was thi
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