"The Patchwork Girl of Oz" by L. Frank Baum is a novel published in 1913. When a magical accident turns Ojo's uncle to stone, the boy embarks on a quest across Oz to gather five rare ingredients for a cure. Joined by Scraps—a wild, poetry-spouting patchwork girl brought to life—along with a glass cat and a peculiar Woozy, Ojo must navigate strange lands and forbidden laws to save his family and find his fortune. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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