Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

These stories get darker and darker. They also make less and less sense. I think I'm giving up on these books and going to Wikipedia to sum up the rest.

If you happen to know Dorothy Gale, let me advise you to stay away from her. The girl attracts natural disasters like she???s some sort of magnet. This time, it???s an earthquake. Dorothy and her cousin Zeb are traveling on a wagon in California when it strikes. Down they go into a big crack in the earth and keep falling until they land in a city made of glass buildings. There are several clues that they have entered a fairy realm: Zeb???s horse (Jim) and Dorothy???s kitten (Eureka) can suddenly talk, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz (who was also in California) shows up with nine tiny piglets in his pocket, and the inhabitants of the city turn out to be made of vegetable matter. Dorothy and her friends can???t get out of the earth the way they came, so they decide to try to walk to Oz where they know they???ll be welcome.

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Dorothy is in Oz again, this time as a result of an earthquake. She meets back up with the Wizard and she comes across the Mangabooks, vegetable people; the Braided Man; and land of the Gargoyles, where everything is made of wood. The characters she meets on her road to finding her way home, as always, are the charm of this series.