Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John

by L. Frank Baum, Edith Van Dyne

Overview

Uncle John gets the idea to spend the winter in California so John, Patsy, Beth, and the Major take a train to Denver, Colorado, then to Albuquerque, New Mexico where their hired chauffeur will drive them to California. On the course of their trip they befriend a girl named Myrtle wo is looking for her Uncle. Myrtle ends prevent a suicide, and they all have quite a few interesting adventures. They avoiding getting hijacked and forced to attend a dance by remittance men, and they have to bail out their chauffeur from jail (I won’t give the reason away).

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014621618
Publisher:	QualityClassics
Publication date:	07/13/2012
Series:	Aunt Jane's Nieces , #6
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	533 KB

About the Author

Lyman Frank Baum. Baum was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels), 82 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, laptop computers (The Master Key), robots (Ozma of Oz) wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, and action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country).

Date of Birth:

May 15, 1856

Date of Death:

May 6, 1919

Place of Birth:

Chittenango, New York

Place of Death:

Hollywood, California

Education:

Attended Peekskill Military Academy and Syracuse Classical School