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What if keeping the peace means walking straight into a quarrel between a mountain dictator and a sorceress queen?
Ozma, the young ruler of Oz, learns that the Flatheads and the Skeezers may soon go to war. She sets out with Dorothy to stop them. Their journey leads through the wild hills of the Quadling country, where keeping people safe matters more than finding treasure.
The Flatheads keep their brains in cans. The Skeezers live in an island city beneath a glass dome. Their rulers, Su-Dic and Queen Coo-ee-oh, mistake fear for respect. As Ozma and Dorothy face this strange conflict, L. Frank Baum brings together playful magic, common sense and the dangers of pride.
What you’ll discover
- A mission for peace Follow Ozma as she goes herself to stop a quarrel from becoming a war.
- Dorothy's steady courage Travel beside a brave friend whose common sense helps her face unfamiliar dangers.
- A city beneath glass Explore the strange lake setting of the Skeezers and their power-hungry sorceress queen.
- Glinda's remarkable book Meet the gentle sorceress whose Great Book of Records holds everything happening in the world.
- Kindness against pride Discover a bright adventure that explores the cost of pride and the strength of kindness.
Who will love it
You will love this book if you enjoy fairy tales with clever magic, kind heroines and odd, lovable friends, and if you like gentle adventures where good sense and good manners count.
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The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- Duty reaches beyond familiar places
- Magic cannot solve every problem
- The dictator rejects a fair settlement
- Stolen power keeps people afraid
- Vanity leaves others facing the danger
- Help travels along different paths
- Authority means serving rather than boasting
- Small jokes carry serious ideas
- Kind authority puts others first
Who’s who
- OzmaThe young fairy Ruler of Oz, who goes in person to stop a war between two peoples she has never met.
- DorothyA little girl from Kansas and a Princess of Oz, brave and curious, who joins Ozma wearing a Magic Belt.
- GlindaThe good Sorceress of the Quadling Country, who guards the Great Book of Records and hunts for a way to rescue her friends.
- The Su-dicThe sly Supreme Dictator of the Flatheads, who keeps three cans of brains and wants revenge on the Skeezers.
- Queen Coo-ee-ohThe proud, thin young ruler of the Skeezers, a witch who commands her island by fear.
- Lady AurexA kind lady of the Skeezer court who dares to tell Ozma the truth about the Queen.
- ErvicA young Skeezer, calm and clever, who takes on a strange errand with a copper kettle.
- The Wizard of OzA small, bald, cheerful magician who joins Glinda's rescue party with his black bag of tools.
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Glinda of Oz
by L. Frank Baum · 1920
As Ozma and Dorothy remain trapped underwater in a glass dome, their friends head north to rescue them.
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What does a ruler do when she learns of a war in her own kingdom, among people she has never met? In Glinda of Oz, Princess Ozma is visiting the good Sorceress when a magic book prints a troubling line.
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- Length
- 36,600 words
- Library level
- Medium longer sentences, everyday words
- First published
- 1920by L. Frank Baum
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A ruler goes to the edge of her land
The story opens in the marble palace of Glinda, the good Sorceress of Oz. Ozma, Ruler of Oz, and her friend Dorothy have come for a day's visit. Dorothy wanders over to Glinda's Great Book of Records, whose pages print every event in the world as it happens.
The Book says that the Skeezers have declared war on the Flatheads. Ozma knows only that a place called Skeezer sits far up in the Gillikin Country. Glinda learns a little more. The Skeezers live on a Magic Isle in a lake, and the Flatheads live on a mountain with a hollow top. Both peoples practice magic, which Oz law forbids to everyone but Glinda and the Wizard.
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Baum, L. Frank. Glinda of Oz. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/glinda-of-oz.
Baum, L. F. (2026). Glinda of Oz. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/glinda-of-oz (Original work published 1920)
Baum, L. Frank. Glinda of Oz. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/glinda-of-oz.
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What is Glinda of Oz about?
Princess Ozma learns from Glinda's Book of Records that two hidden peoples of Oz, the Skeezers and the Flatheads, are about to fight. She and Dorothy travel north to make peace and find themselves in great trouble.
Who are the Skeezers and the Flatheads?
The Skeezers live on a Magic Isle under a glass dome in a lake and are ruled by Queen Coo-ee-oh. The Flatheads live on a mountain with a hollow top and carry their brains in cans.
Who is Glinda in the Oz books?
Glinda is the good Sorceress of the Quadling Country in southern Oz. She keeps the Great Book of Records, advises Ozma and is the most skilled magic-worker in the land.
The author
L. Frank Baum
1856–1919 · American children's fantasy writer
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) was an American author of children’s books. He was born in Chittenango, New York, and later lived in South Dakota, Chicago, and California. He published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and wrote thirteen further Oz novels. He died in Hollywood, California.
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