Howard's Splintered, Frank Beddor's Looking Glass Wars, and TV shows such as Once Upon a Time and Grimm." - School Library Journal "Paige delivers a solid, intense, and strange narrative that draws deeply on its source material." - Publishers Weekly " strikes a similar tone to Marisa Meyer's Cinder series, with its blend of fantasy, humor, and horror, and it will likely inspire fans of that series to make their way to the Emerald City." - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books "Paige has spirited readers back to The Wizard of Oz. Give this cinematic upper-YA novel to fans of A. 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 "Debut author Paige doesn't hold back in this fast-paced action novel. This really is a woman's world." - "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. You've got empowered heroines, sure, but Paige also conjures a formidable villainess in Dorothy and some manipulative lady revolutionaries. "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 "Dorothy Must Die is kind of the ultimate in girl-powered literature.
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