"The Hungry Tiger of Oz" by Ruth Plumly Thompson is a novel published in 1926. When a tyrant's prison overflows in the kingdom of Rash, his vizier lures the tenderhearted Hungry Tiger from Oz to devour prisoners. But the Tiger refuses, instead joining forces with wrongfully imprisoned Betsy Bobbin and the rightful prince to escape. Together they embark on a quest for three magic rubies that could restore the kingdom's true ruler to power. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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