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There are lots of other good stories out there besides the Oz books! Many Oz fans enjoy reading other books as well. For now, you can visit the original version of Aisle 13 by clicking here. In the near future, I hope to slowly move them all over here, and even add some new stories and series.
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100 Cupboards trilogy
The 100 Cupboards Trilogy by N. D. Wilson. While they are biking in South America, Henry York's parents are kidnapped. Until their fate is determined, Henry lives with his aunt and uncle on a Kansas farm. He discovers one hundred mysterious cupboards behind the plaster of his bedroom wall, each of which leads to a mysterious new world…
Book 1: 100 Cupboards. In the opening novel, Henry is introduced to his new home of Henry, Kansas, finds that his uncle and aunt's house holds its own mysteries, and discovers the mystery of the cupboards behind his wall and how to use them. After making a few trips into other worlds, he also makes some enemies!
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Book 2: Dandelion Fire. After the discoveries Henry made in the first book, he decides to enter other cupboards in an effort to solve the mysteries of his own origin, and the dandelion magic he appears to wield. But he ends up scattering his aunt, uncle, and cousins throughout several different worlds.
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Book 3: The Chestnut King. Nimiane and her fingerling warriors are closing in on Henry. To save his family and all the worlds he's visited, Henry must enlist the help of the Chestnut King, who is neither easily found nor convinced.
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Bigger Than a Bread Box
Bigger Than a Bread Box by Laurel Snyder. When Rebecca Shapiro's parents get a divorce, her mother moves her from Baltimore to Atlanta, where she doesn't know anybody and can't even begin to figure out how to fit in. When she finds a breadbox in her grandmother's attic that can give her anything she asks for, however — so long as it can fit in the breadbox — she begins to believe that things aren't so bad. But then she asks, where does the breadbox get all of the things she asks for?
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CJ's Notebooks
CJ's Notebooks Series by Sherwood Smith. When Smith was eight years old, a girl named Clair walked into her dreams, bringing hints of a world where girls could adventure, live on their own, and best of all, didn't have to grow up. Clair traveled about looking for girls who needed a home. She even came to Earth, where she found CJ, who did not fit. CJ found herself not only taken to another world to live, but she became the princess — Clair's "left hand splat." One of her jobs as princess was to write down their records. Another was to serve as leader for the girls when Clair was busy learning to become queen. The girls had jobs too, as they discovered villains who thought it their business to take a kingdom away from a mere girl. From the shadowy Kwenz, a powerful mage with a very wicked past, to the usurper Glotulae and her son Prince Jonnicake, who in their ridiculous way were just as determined to boot Clair out, there were plenty of chances for adventure. And mystery, like why did kids from other times and worlds show up every now and then?
Over the Sea: CJ's First Notebook. CJ comes to Mearsies Heili, embarks on her first adventures, becomes a princess, and starts recording everyone's adventures.
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Mearsies Heili Bounces Back: CJ's Second Notebook. CJ loves life with 'the M girls'—so she is completely unprepared to be taken away and put in a silken prison in order to forget being a princess. As CJ uses her brains and imagination to get out of trouble, she has to think about what being a princess really means. She also discovers that there are things even tougher to deal with than terrible enchantments, sinister shadows, and lurking villains: teenage boys.
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Poor World: CJ's Fourth Notebook. CJ and the gang of girls from Mearsies Heili like their adventures fun and villains to be defeatable by a well-thrown prune pie. In fact, they laughed at the very idea of stories about kids who have to Save the World… Until it happens to them.
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Hunt Across Worlds: CJ's Sixth Notebook. It begins with two kids from Earth who discover a boy from another world being kept hostage. When they rescue him, they end up having to cross the USA before being blasted by magic to Mearsies Heili, where they meet a sailor girl who's been stuck in charge of a Mysterious Magical Object. CJ and the gang try to come to the rescue, discovering that being on the edge of big events can lead to bigger questions.
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The Girl Who… series
The Girl Who… series by Catherynne M. Valente. September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), who invites her on an adventure, implying that her help is needed in Fairyland. These books are about her adventures there.
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. In September's first adventure, the new Marquess is unpredictable and fickle, and also not much older than September. Only September can retrieve a talisman the Marquess wants from the enchanted woods, and if she doesn’t…then the Marquess will make life impossible for the inhabitants of Fairyland.
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