Description
The Flying Girl and Her Chum
By L. Frank Baum
Illustrated by Joseph Pierre Nuyttens
5 1/2″x 8 1/2″ – 250 Pages – Hardcover
In this high-flying sequel to The Flying Girl, a damaged aeroplane strands brave Orissa Kane and her best friend Sybil on a barren rock somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. The two teenage girls must use all their wits just to survive. Meanwhile, in the best Oz-book double-plot tradition, Orissa’s friends form a search party to find the missing girls. Throw in a ragged band of ocean-going outlaws bent on mayhem, and you have one of L. Frank Baum’s most exciting non-Oz adventure stories, The Flying Girl and Her Chum.
Eric Shanower provides a new Foreword detailing Baum’s writing process and the history of women in early aviation including the young female aviator Harriet Quimby who was likely a model for the Flying Girl!
“Baum had a way of writing juvenile series without writing down to his audience. At his best, his novels are tinged with a certain amount of cynicism–you weren’t always sure at first who the good guys were….It can be very refreshing.”
-Yellowback Library
