title: Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 3: The Patchwork Girl of Oz; Tik-Tok of Oz; The Scarecrow of Oz
author:  L. Frank Baum 
description: <b>Lyman Frank Baum</b> was born in Chittenango, New York, on May 15, 1856. Over the course of his life, Baum raised fancy poultry, sold fireworks, managed an opera house, opened a department store, and an edited a newspaper before finally turning to writing. In 1900, he published his best known book <i>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</i>. Eventually he wrote fifty-five novels, including thirteen Oz books, plus four lost novels, eighty-three short stories, more than two hundred poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings. Baum died on May 6, 1919. He is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California.
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  #### Ozma of Oz
  
  
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  1\. The Girl in the Chicken Coop
  
  2\. The Yellow Hen
  
  3\. Letters in the Sand
  
  4\. Tiktok, the Machine Man
  
  5\. Dorothy Opens the Dinner Pail
  
  6\. The Heads of Langwidere
  
  7\. Ozma of Oz to the Rescue
  
  8\. The Hungry Tiger
  
  9\. The Royal Family of Ev
  
  10\. The Giant with the Hammer
  
  11\. The Nome King
  
  12\. The Eleven Guesses
  
  13\. The Nome King Laughs
  
  14\. Dorothy Tries to be Brave
  
  15\. Billina Frightens the Nome King
  
  16\. Purple, Green and Gold
  
  17\. The Scarecrow Wins the Fight
  
  18\. The Fate of the Tin Woodman
  
  19\. The King of Ev
  
  20\. The Emerald City
  
  21\. Dorothy's Magic Belt
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Ozma of Oz
  
  
  ### L. Frank Baum
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of
  
  
  Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin
  
  
  Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and
  
  
  the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good
  
  
  People too Numerous to Mention
  
  
  Faithfully Recorded Herein
  
  
  
  
  
  by L.