The Arabella Grimsbro

Arabella Grimsbro is a 15-year-old girl with a mouth like a dock worker and an attitude to match. When she walks into Voyages Through Literature - a cheesy mall store promising virtual reality tours of public domain classics - the last thing she expects is to be whisked away to an actual magical world.

To make things worse, this Oz is very different from the one she saw in a movie when she was little. Ferocious beasts with grizzly bear bodies and tiger heads? A town of creepy, porcelain dolls? The Tin Woodsman lying broken and battered at the bottom of a ditch?

Arabella will need more than surliness and silver slippers to find the answers at the end of this rainbow - or even just survive the trip.

Editor's note: profanity, for real! Arabella Grimsbro curses like a longshoreman. If you are considering purchasing this book for a child, please be aware that, among other obscenities, it features some variant of the word “f--k” 87 times. Eighty-eight, if you include the editor’s note.