Her world building is fascinating.” - ALA Booklist “Paige has embellished upon the original Wizard of Oz story to create a completely new, even more bizarre Oz and cast of characters. “Paige is creating a rather brilliantly twisted version of the familiar world of Oz.” - Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Frank Baum would be proud because Danielle Paige really makes Oz - even a modern, dystopian version of it - her own in the enjoyable sequel to Dorothy Must Die.” - USA Today “Paige delivers a solid, intense, and strange narrative that draws deeply on its source material.” - Publishers Weekly Howard’s Splintered, Frank Beddor’s Looking Glass Wars, and TV shows such as Once Upon a Time and Grimm.” - School Library Journal Give this cinematic upper-YA novel to fans of A. “Paige doesn’t hold back in this fast-paced action novel. For those willing to go on a quest with a heroine more attuned to our times than the Dust Bowl era, there’s no place like it.” - USA Today “Gone are the days of rainbows, Lollipop Guilds and pretty much anything to sing about in a major key.

Here, women and girls are allowed to be anything.”.

“Dorothy Must Die is kind of the ultimate in girl-powered literature. Praise for the DOROTHY MUST DIE series: “Readers of Baum’s books will take special delight in seeing new twists on the old characters, and they will greet the surprise climactic turnabout with the smugness of insiders.” - Kirkus Reviews

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